your elbow, in that place
with no particular name. Erosion,
grain by grain...I can't make

you beautiful. It frightens me,
how little we miss, so close. Not a crumb.
What do you see

and not say, that I deceive myself I hide?

What love can't do...


Philip Gross
A Crumb
Verse Daily

that clockwise swirl on the shell of an eastbound snail is on its south side.

Beefheart van Vliet

space isn't dark, it's that there's nothing there to reflect the light, but the light is there, it's everywhere. the universe is a stunningly bright place, not dark at all.

The guqin, a seven-stringed zither, is China's oldest stringed instrument,
with a history of some 3000 years. Chinese music has a long history,
and its essence is best expressed on the guqin. In Imperial China,
a well educated scholar was expected to be skilled in four arts:

Qin (the guqin),

Qi (the game of Go),

Shu (calligraphy) and

Hua (painting).

http://www.sfoc.org/cni1/cultureni/2001/05/asia/asia01_01.html

Eliza Griffiths

chop suey

Liu Fang

Pipa Soloist

Ou Lu Wang Ji
(Forgetting Vulgar Ideas)

THAT IS MY FAMILY

beige princess

During an attempt to restore the damaged paintings, the upper layer of plaster was removed to reveal the underlayer which contained the preliminary compositions drawn by brush in a red dye called sinope, a mixture of special red earth and water. Sinope is the name of a town in Syria where the dye was produced.

Painters used either this mixture or charcoal to trace the first outlines of the fresco composition. The Sinopite is therefore the underpainting which was never seen until modern times...

voluminous audio poetical

Photo-journalism Viet Nam war