Paul Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon, 1888 Twenty-four years remind the tears of my eyes. (Bury the dead for fear that they walk to the grave in labour.) In the groin of the natural doorway I crouched like a tailor Sewing a shroud for a journey By the light of the meat-eating sun. Dressed to …
Rafal Olbinski, Explicit introspection, 2000 ca My tears are like the quiet drift Of petals from some magic rose; And all my grief flows from the rift Of unremembered skies and snows. I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream. Le …
Dylan Thomas – Il pagliaccio sulla luna / Clown In The Moon Read More »
Caravaggio, Bacchus, c. 1595 This bread I break was once the oat, This wine upon a foreign tree Plunged in its fruit; Man in the day or wine at night Laid the crops low, broke the grape’s joy. Once in this time wine the summer blood Knocked in the flesh that decked the vine, Once …
Dylan Thomas – Questo pane che spezzo / This bread I break Read More »
Vincent Van Gogh, Undergrowth with two figures, 1890 Being but men, we walked into the trees Afraid, letting our syllables be soft For fear of waking the rooks, For fear of coming Noiselessly into a world of wings and cries. If we were children we might climb, Catch the rooks sleeping, and break no twig, …
Dylan Thomas – Non essendo che uomini / Being but men Read More »
Jan Toorop, The vagabonds, 1891 Find meat on bones that soon have none, And drink in the two milked crags, The merriest marrow and the dregs Before the ladies’ breasts are hags And the limbs are torn. Disturb no winding-sheets, my son, But when the ladies are cold as stone Then hang a ram rose …
Dylan Thomas – Cerca la carne sulle ossa / Find meat on bones Read More »
Aubrey Beardsley, Lucian’s strange creatures, 1894 O make me a mask and a wall to shut from your spies Of the sharp, enamelled eyes and the spectacled claws Rape and rebellion in the nurseries of my face, Gag of dumbstruck tree to block from bare enemies The bayonet tongue in this undefended prayerpiece, The present …
Dylan Thomas – Oh, fatemi una maschera / O Make Me A Mask Read More »
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