The Dark Attic — Bernhard Folkestad (1879–1933) — National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway — public domain the...

Au lit: le baiser — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) — public domain Wikimedia Commons it was only yesterday I swear when you said...

The Old Guitarist — Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) The Art Institute of Chicago- public domain crippled folding chair tattered hat threadbare...

Laughing Fool (c. 1500–20) — Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (attrib.) (1470–1533) public domain Wiki Commons I was a jester once but never...

World map in the shape of a heart — Paris, 1536 — Oronce Finé (1494–1555) — public domain have a heart the saying goes but heartfelt...

Banksy street art — photo by author, taken at a Paris exhibition, November 2022 — Banksy claims no copyright name me one one nation that...

Banksy street art — photo by author, taken at a Paris exhibition, November 2022 — Banksy claims no copyright wallpapered layer after...

Photo by Christophe Dion on Unsplash when you feel you have gathered too much dust have a seat and for once forget that I’m rickety and...

Heart-shaped stone among autumn bearberry leaves — Wrangell Mountains, Alaska — photo by auhor© nothing grows my child in the greenhouse...

Stolperstein - Ghent, Belgium - photo by author This morning, I asked my wife where she’d parked the car last night. ‘Oh, right around...

No Ball Games — Banksy — photo by author, taken at a Paris exhibition, November 2022 — Banksy claims no copyright on his art took my...

Danse Macabre — John of Kastav — fresco dated 1490, Holy Trinity Church, Hrastovlje, Slovenia - public domain nothing grows without the...

to turn a single page into a universe you must be woman man and child outside age without race wild and free spurning time blasting space...

Seiltänzerin — August Macke (1887–1914) — public domain balancing on the tightropes of our dreams we perform our precarious advance side...

A Girl Writing; The Pet Goldfinch — Browne, Henriette (1829–1901) -public domain we little gods of little words we think we write for...

Negotiating overflow on the Koyokuk River, Brooks Range, Alaska — March 1989 — photo by author© frozen river lets me travel on her winter...

Untitled ice fishing scene - Alaska Native Inupiaq Artist, James Kivetoruk Moses (1903-1982) courtesy Coe Center for the Arts The oldest...

Travellers on the platform of Hollands Spoor, The Hague - Hans von Faber du Faur (1863-1940) - public domain sitting by the tracks the...

Sami on skis in norhtern lights - Frants Diderik Bøe (1820–1891) - public domain winter’s ink has spilled and spread and now is when we...

Photo Piqsels.com — public domain license autumn child born naked as the season’s trees cradled in a bed of rotting leaves there’s a...