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musings on June

1.anne sexton (“the truth the dead know”), 2. anne sexton (“suicide note poem”), 3. mary oliver (“august”), 4. l.m. montgomery (“anne of the island”), 5. morgan parker (“the black saint & the sinner lady & the dead & the truth”), 6. found poems: sylvia plath / peter k. steinberg (“percy key among the narcissi”) artwork by hugo grenville

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““He [Cicero] needed no further reason to dislike Cleopatra: intelligent women who had better libraries than he did offended him on three counts.””

— –Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: a Life

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— Frank Bidart, from “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; ‘In The Ruin’", published c. 2017.

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Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2012

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The Japanese Bridge (The Bridge over the Water-Lily Pond), 1900, Claude Monet

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Jeanne-Marguerite Lecadre In The Garden 1866

Claude Monet

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Hatshepsut’s Red Temple, currently presiding in Luxor, in the Karnak Temple Complex. Although never finished and deconstructed after the end of Hatshepsut’s reign, it has been rebuilt now; at least what remains of it. It’s rather small and has no roof now, but the basalt basin shows clearly its’ purifying uses, as in the back exit, small canals were built into the steps to let water run off. The red stone of the temple shrine glitters in the sun, outlined by rich black doorways.

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Vincent Van Gogh's painting details

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On Demand Streaming of Free Shakespeare in the Park productions

"This summer, throughout May and June everyone will have free access to stream The Public’s Free Shakespeare in the Park productions of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (2019), MERRY WIVES (2021), RICHARD III (2022), and the premiere of HAMLET (2023), captured live from The Delacorte Theater in Central Park by THIRTEEN for Great Performances on PBS.

Streaming Schedule:

May 3-June 30: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Click here to learn more!)

May 10-June 30: HAMLET (Click here to learn more!)

May 17-June 30: MERRY WIVES (Click here to learn more!)

May 24-June 30: RICHARD III (Click here to learn more!)"

[ID: 1: Danielle Brooks as Beatrice and Grantham Coleman as Benedick from Much Ado About Nothing.

2: Ato Blankson-Wood as Hamlet.

3: Pascale Armand, Julian Rozzell Jr., David Ryan Smith, Susan Kelechi Watson, and Phillip James Brannon in Merry Wives.

4: Danai Gurira as Richard III. /end ID]

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Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Virginia Woolf written c. February 1913

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insects in art: butterflies

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“and night is always the night. With its black heart and its black hands it lays me down.”

— Charles Wright, from Homage To Cesare Pavese in “The Other Side Of The River”

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Ulisse Caputo (1872-1948, Italian) ~ Woman Reading, n/d

[Source: LotSearch]

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queen of the world to me

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Flowers only, and the moonlight coloured May.

Virginia Woolf, The Waves