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The Lovers’ Chronicle 20 April – steeped – verse by Pietro Aretino – art by Odilon Redon & Joan Miró

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, “Like a tea bag” ha, no, another origin unknown first used in a 2016 poem “From the melodramatic years” yes well, drama did as drama does “Oh I had that coming” it is an apt verb for any of this […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 19 April – cast thy shadow – art by Willem Drost & Hermine David – verse by José Echegaray – birth of Jayne Mansfield

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, this one had to be from somethin’ i was readin’, though that is lost “I can see the drama pulling you in” and today is a perfecto, no not the cigar kind “Ah, that was my first guess” ha! hold […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 18 April – inspire – birth of Lucrezia Borgia – verse by Thomas Middleton – verse by Antero de Quental – art by George Clausen & Max Weber

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle here i draw forth my journal, turn to this page and with pen, after thinkin’ a moment, write these words it is my privilege to have you lookin’ over my shoulder, to have you here to listen i was late comin’ to realize […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 17 April – seven cross – verse by John Ford & Henry Vaughan – art by George Vicat Cole – birth of Karen Blixen & Thornton Wilder

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, a thousand miles away and yet close enough, i can feel the wind there are things that words fail the 40 mile vistas a night sky horizon to horizon full of stars the look in your eyes when you […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 16 April – not with words – art by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun & Ford Madox Brown – verse by Anatole France

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, certainly mostly with “Of course” there are moments when more happens “The way we end our days” yes, our favorite time “After you read poetry to me” words precede, flow through punctuatin’ our time together “From the conjuring” to the […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 15 April – consider – birth of Leonardo da Vinci & Henry James – premiere of Handel’s Serse – art by Thomas Hart Benton

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, these random thoughts -a knock on the door- i did place an order but i did not think anyone was listenin’ need some help no, though i will accept it from you i like to do things when inspired so […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 14 April – revelator, reprise- art by Victor Borisov-Musatov – premiere of Delibes’ Lakmé

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, *tell me who’s that writin’* though not religious “One of the reasons for us” yes, i have always felt a pull to this call “It is powerful” when i write it seems as if someone has come to tell me […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 13 April – memories, reprise – verse by Thomas Percy – art by James Ensor – birth of Samuel Beckett, Eudora Welty & Seamus Heaney

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, a theme so compellin’ it had to come back “In misty watercolors” ha, well played my dear “Thank you” we talked about the ones we have created “Now we can turn towards the ones to come” absolutely wherever they take […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 12 April – turned on – Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert – photography by Imogen Cunningham – art by Robert Delaunay

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, today’s theme had to be about desire as tribute to Madame Bovary “Knowing you, I would’ve been disappointed otherwise” could have been about the recurrin’ theme, c’est la faute de la fatalité “Interesting, and how that applies to us” somethin’ […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 11 April – dawnin’ – premiere of Dido and Aeneas – art by Jean-Baptiste Isabey

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, “I’m guessing not the age of” ha, no but we could write a song of a new era that began when we saw each other on Ponce for the first time “Little did we know what we were walking towards” […]

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