Baby Loves To Rock

cf. James Abbott McNeill Whistler, “Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1”, also called “Portrait of the Artist’s Mother” (1871) and Maxell advertisement (1980) (edited and rearranged collage)

Baby Loves to Rock

“The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.”

cf. Allen Tucker, Interior (edited) (1921)

I listened, motionless and still;
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.

–William Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper (excerpt)

Dark Starry Night Of The Soul

On a dark night,
Kindled in love with yearnings…
I went forth without being observed,
My house being now at rest…

–Saint John of the Cross, “Dark Night Of The Soul”