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Chen Zishan.

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I’ve eaten his heart

For the sole reason that he

Shall not devour mine

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Caress my skin, and

All that may lie in between

My flesh and my soul

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Leo quasi bos comedens paleas (Isaiah 11:7), Salvador Dali

Medium: gouache

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Dog Lying in the Snow, 1911, Franz Marc

Medium: oil,canvas

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Arethusa, from Andrew Lang's The Blue Poetry Book by Henry Justice Ford (1891)

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Some secrets should remain secrets

Even to yourself

Once the words pass your lips, they become real

No longer just a slew of memories you silently harbor,

but a true part of your psyche that you must turn and face

But if it’s buried, muffled, and smothered

Perhaps you can enjoy one more day of safety

The nightmares are mere illusions,

And the dirty sensations will try to claw their way up your throat, ooze out from between your clenched teeth, and they will brush across your skin

But it hasn’t happened yet

You are safe hiding behind denial

Because it hasn’t truly happened

No, not yet

You haven’t faced it yet

And you will remain in limbo, caught between what normality used to be and what it is now

But at least you are safe

Because no one knows, and it’s your secret to keep

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Koichi Sakamoto (Japan, born 1932)

“Winter landscape” n.d.

Etching

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Maria Petrova

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Total Eclipse of The Sun (Wilhelm Kranz, 1897)

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Artist.: Henry Daubrez

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Cherry Blossoms by Utagawa Hiroshige (Edo Period)

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Deatil of Moonlit Landscape with a View of the New Amstel River and Castle Kostverloren (1647-49) by Aert van der Neer

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“Requiem” - by Ignacio Trelis

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