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Night scene - Aimee Erickson  , 2023.

American, French b.  1967 -

Oil and acrylic on canvas , 6 x 6 in.

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baby i won't hurt you

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first tendrils of 

honeysuckled arms

fraying ends at nerve

cuts salt in halves like a waltz

swaying beyond yellow,

the pulse whole

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Please! I can’t be more in love with him!

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DEV PATEL as THE KID

Monkey Man (2024) dir. Dev Patel

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no one knows anyone there is no one

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Andrés Rueda (Spanish,b.1956)

The sun hides behind the poplar, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

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Vintage Appalachian Trail Map

1923

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some delight in going unnoticed

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accept

except you’re human when it

hurts my touchstone july

ruby necklace couldn’t get

you what you wanted or

craved, made honesty

feel embarrassed like

a best friend could clam-

or doubt to soft hands ev-

er aroma[n]tic, gave you all

truth lost to chronically

sarcastic remarks un-

like oneself, said my

edge was on fire

in your heart, shoulder

chipped, green sky

so harmless but in

coy disarmament, coax-

ed you to lament in

my empty airbrush,

braced “let me have

my moments” like

finding a crack on

ancient relics, as

if they could

diminish

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I sent you omens and all kinds of signs please respond

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you look so delicate, held like that in the light

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Peeled Orange - Matthew Miller , 2022.

British , b. 1975 -

Oil on canvas panel , 10 x 10 in.

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