INCUBUS

 

“Sex ages us. Priests are boyish,

spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty.

We others, the demon rots us out.”

 

~ John Updike ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a Ymir taken in October 2020. (YMIR © Ray Harryhausen).

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ÉTOILES

 

“From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.

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NIGHTS

 

“Cupid and Bacchus my saints are,

may drink and love still reign,

with wine I wash away my cares,

and then to cunt again.”

 

~ John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

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STORMY WEATHER

 

“I love your lips when they’re wet with wine
and red with wicked desire.”

 

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in December 2018.

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TROUBLE WITH A CAPITAL T

 

“And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything,

you risk even more.”

 

~ Erica Jong ~

 

Digitally enhanced image cropped and created from an original stock photo provided courtesy of Euterpe Enterprises November 2018.

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TWINKLE

 

“I’ve still got a twinkle in me.”

 

~ Robert Plant ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2018.

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ODE AU VIEILLISSEMENT

 

“But age became him as it did the oaks and the cedars.”

 

~ Thomas Burnett Swann ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a portrait taken in Paris in May 2017.

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