ϟ The Grammar of Light

Even barely enough light to find a mouth,

and bless both with a meaningless O, teaches,

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Western wind, when wilt thou blow,
The small rain down can rain.
Christ, if my love were in my arms,
And I in my bed again.  —Untitled, Anon, before 1530
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untitled by Rowena Waack on Flickr.
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untitled by Rowena Waack on Flickr. love this set
Sappho - Charles Mengin (1877)  Oil on canvas (Still holding in that fearful leapBy her loved lyre) into the deep,And dying, quenched the fatal fireAt once, of both her heart and lyre(Thomas Moore, Evenings in Greece, 1826)

ϟ Bid Adieu to Maidenhood by James Joyce

Bid adieu, adieu, adieu,
Bid adieu to girlish days,
Happy Love is come to woo
Thee and woo thy girlish ways—
The zone that doth become thee fair,
The snood upon thy yellow hair,

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The drawing above shows the spelling of a man’s name, Vasia, in Cyrillic characters. The symbols on each finger have specific coded meanings: “In life, only count on yourself,” is the meaning of the symbol on the first finger, and the three skulls on the third finger symbolize murders committed by the criminal.
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come home boy Pattie Boyd and George Harrison (1966) discovering the sitar