entity

when chaos presents
such a situation
who are we
to resist

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Bloom

the first bloom of a complex life that initially showed up in the explosive debris of a hydrogen bomb in 1952

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Lady Godiva

Morgan, Ronald Brookman; Lady Godiva; Herbert Art Gallery & Museum; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/lady-godiva-273859


Ronald Brookman Morgan (1924–2007)
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum

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Queen of Sheba

Queen of Sheba [1922]
Mark Gertler (1891–1939)
Tate

But if you should ever meet the Queen of Sheba in the flesh, beware of marrying her. The Queen of Sheba is for a magic kind of love, never for matrimony. If you were to marry her, you would both be destroyed and your soul would disintegrate.

— C. G. Jung

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Young Woman in a Brocade Gown


Willem Drost (1633–after 1663)


The Wallace Collection

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February

Vapor rises slowly in grey

February, the scuffed snow

Pitted as the peel of the moon

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Mary Helen in the Guise of Sekhmet

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September 1973

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Today’s Theme

an uncanny gathering of nature’s failures
the florists of the lost earthly paradise
many of god’s elect not known to the herd of mankind
any sentence with “god” in it is automatically meaningless
you have been reproved in an unassuming yet towering act of artistic recalcitrance attesting to a preternatural animal ingenuity
a wonderful part of the current thinking infrastructure
not instantaneous but eventual a nutter or a tosser
the sweet apple grows on the sour apple tree
coolly indeterminate tease the best way to see the goddess
is to bump into her with barely a taste of christian residue
do not share this with any maniacs you might encounter
amid the reflective surfaces of the party boat decorations
in a highly charged neurotic situation it might appear
as some kind of technological signal but we need
information not objects you know
what is meant no doubt

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Thence

One of the elect
Not known to the herd
She passed from her tabernacle
Of dust to the abode of sincerity
When she opened the door a
Great glory shone from her
Gradually filling the house
So that no shadow fell in it
This glory suffused the city
Spreading thence to all being

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