The Lovers’ Chronicle 4 January – wishin’ you – art by Marsden Hartley & Augustus John

04 January 2024 By Rhett 0 In Random

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag dedicated to his muse. Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

a vow

to tell you

what i want

at this point

all i can ever

imagine wantin’

is this…

for you to miss me

and to look forward

to seein’ me again

this is all about you

and how you feel

and what you want

and what you need

wow

this is a very

different kind

of wishin’ now

well not quite an oath,

she who moves, shiverin’ body,

voice, and the soft sound, sighin’

into transgression repeat this verse,

as stanzas fade words attach, become,

a link to hope

embrace

this

do not stop, do not allow

fear to get a look at us

exclaim all is now you

Pale Love Pale Rider

warnin’
will brake
for first light
and last light
for verse that insists
on bein’ written now
and for thoughts of you
that threaten to overwhelm

sorry, no sunset
photos on this leg
last light came
with too many
telephone poles
and pump jacks
in the way
i like my landscape
photos to look timeless
as if it could be
150 years ago

whizzed right through
the town of birth and death
without bein’ accosted
by any spirits
one of these days
must muster the courage
to stop and spend the night
and see if the haunts
want to dance

at 2036
stopped for a star check
found Orion and
stared in wide wonder
braced against the cold

with thoughts of you

an oath, immortal
she who moves, shiverin’ body,
voice, and the soft sound, sighin’
into transgression

repeat these words,
as radiant stanzas fade
words attach and become,
a link to hope

embrace
this
do not stop, do not allow
fear to get a look at us

serenity, when all else fell
hope, our joy and support
stumbled against an end
struck on the way

shelter these delusions,
cover and shade the trails,
now, would you have this smile
if we could become whole

under the veil
time to glimpse
and to exclaim
all is now you

Marsden Hartley
Marsden Hartley in 1939

Today is the birthday of Marsden Hartley (Lewiston, Maine; January 4, 1877 – September 2, 1943 Ellsworth, Maine); Modernist painter, poet, and essayist.

Gallery

Mountain lake autumn

Young American Artists of the Modern School, L. to R. Jo Davidson, Edward Steichen, Arthur B. Carles, John Marin; back: Marsden Hartley, Laurence Fellows, c. 1911, Bates College Museum of Art

The Ice Hole, 1908, New Orleans Museum of Art
Painting No. 48, 1913, Brooklyn Museum
Portrait of a German Officer, 1914, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Handsome Drinks, 1916, Brooklyn Museum
Village, 1940, San Antonio Museum of Art
Landscape, New Mexico, 1916–1920, Brooklyn Museum

Augustus John

Today is the birthday of Augustus Edwin John (Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales 4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961 Fordingbridge, Hampshire, England); painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He was an important exponent of Post-Impressionism in the United Kingdom. He was the brother of the painter Gwen John.

Early in 1900, he married his first wife, Ida Nettleship (1877–1907). After her death in 1907, his mistress Dorothy “Dorelia” McNeill, a Bohemian style icon, became his partner and later became his second wife.

John had an affair with Ian Fleming’s widowed mother, Evelyn Ste Croix Fleming née Rose.