Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1845
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1845
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Published by: Izumiya Ichibei, (和泉屋市兵衛) Print artist: Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞 Toyokuni III) biography Date: 1830-1839 (c.)
The British Museum

Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)
(ca. 1830, graphite & black chalk lightly heightened with white chalk, on wove)
Réunion des Musées Nationaux
But doubtless, Sir, you will be asking what is this strange, mysterious quality which Delacroix, to the glory of our age, has interpreted better than anyone else. It is the invisible, the impalpable, the dream, the nerves, the soul….
— Baudelaire

(as my daughter likes to say about earrings, the bigger the O the bigger the HO)

by Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook:
Date painted 1960
Oil on wood, 74.5 x 59.5 cm
Collection: Sir Francis Cook Collection


If I Can’t Have You
Attempt-to-locate
In the American bush
Over lunch at the Old Country Buffet
Or among the road runners
And the occasional lizard
Outside the Pacific Northwest’s
Premier cosmetology school
Where it looks like someone
Has decapitated a squad of cheerleaders
Some creepy sleazy nasty man
Swinging manic
Employees describe him as annoying
He’s not going to the Celestial Kingdom
That’s for sure
The trauma and drama arousing and nostalgic
Resisting solutions
Praying like crazy
That she’s normal happy and safe
As indicated by scripture