Reading Treasure: Portrait Wednesday: Maria Theresa of Savoy by Giuseppe Duprà, circa 1762
Portrait Wednesday: a day for sharing portraits of Marie Antoinette and her contemporaries.
i don’t know
how to explain what memory is, except that
my therapist thinks it’s unhealthy the way
i can’t stop comparing my sadness to a
mountain.— Topaz Winters, from “coda at an empty train station, 6:27 am,” poems for the sound of the sky before thunder
Every book you’ve ever read is a combination of 26 letters.
“My roots are not my chains”— Adrienne Rich, from “Axel Avákar,” Tonight No Poetry Will Serve (Norton, 2011)