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Untitled: photo by † Jack Davison, 9 January 2012
No one is lovely
but you alone
a green branch
fallen into the sea
but you alone
a green branch
fallen into the sea
that was jostled
and broken to be
returned after
certain years all
straightness
and strength from
that mold -- I
am through with you.
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963): To a Woman Seen Once, 1940, from Poems 1939-1944 in The Collected Poems, Vol. 2 1939-1962 (1988)
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini: Jan van Eyck, c. 1435, oil on oak, 29 x 20 cm (Staatliche Museen, Berlin)