Hugues Merle, The Lunatic of Etretat, 1871

Twin Peaks Log Lady

American Sonnet 51 by Wanda Coleman

in my last incarnation i inoculated myself
with oodles of dago red and stumbled into fame
without falling. i worshipped in the temple of Lady Day
and took Coltrane as my wizard. i always wore my mink coat
to the Laundromat and drank pale champagne with my

soft-boiled eggs. i believed King Kong got a raw deal.
i believe great and prolonged sex cured cancer. i believed
in the afterdeath. i was liberator of cough-and-gaggers
from the cages of their spew. i scavenged rusted auto parts,
built a niggah machine, loaded it with atomic amour and

wiped out all purveyors of poverty. . . swapped my pink
pearl for a black sapphire. and then one quincentennial
i rose from the magnificent effluvium of my jazz
to discover my children did not know me

Harry Callahan, Eleanor, 1949

Franz Sedlacek, Flowers and Insects Nr. 1, 1935

Franz Sedlacek, Flowers and Insects Nr. 2, 1935

Franz Sedlacek, Flowers and Insects Nr. 3, 1935

Irving Penn , La main de Miles Davis, 1986

Leonor Fini, Dithyrambe , 1972

Chet Baker / Wolfgang Lackerschmid, Ballads for Two (full album)

Leonor Fini, Drawing for Marquis de Sade’s “Juliette.”, 1944

Chet Baker, Alone Together

Claude Cahun, Object, 1936

Vittorio Pavan, Leonor Fini , 1951

Albert Birkle, Crucifixion , 1921

Kronos Quartet, Mugam Beyati Shiraz

Kawanabe Kyōsai , Hôki the Demon-Queller (Shôki to Oni), 1870

Bruce Davidson, Jimmy Armstrong, the dwarf clown, Palisades, NJ, 1958

Will Barnet, Chess Game, 1971

Nicholas Kalmakoff, The Sphinx, 1926

Unknown Portuguese master, The Hell, 16th century

Katsushika Hokusai , Poem by Ariwara no Narihira , 1839

Marian Spore Bush , Thunder and lightning , 1938