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Clarice Lispector — An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

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Georgia O’Keeffe

 Black Petunia & White Morning-Glory II. 1926

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Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.

It's the same when love comes to an end,

or the marriage fails and people say

they knew it was a mistake, that everybody

said it would never work. That she was

old enough to know better. But anything

worth doing is worth doing badly.

Like being there by that summer ocean

on the other side of the island while

love was fading out of her, the stars

burning so extravagantly those nights that

anyone could tell you they would never last.

Every morning she was asleep in my bed

like a visitation, the gentleness in her

like antelope standing in the dawn mist.

Each afternoon I watched her coming back

through the hot stony field after swimming,

the sea light behind her and the huge sky

on the other side of that. Listened to her

while we ate lunch. How can they say

the marriage failed? Like the people who

came back from Provence (when it was Provence)

and said it was pretty but the food was greasy.

I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,

but just coming to the end of his triumph.

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April

by Mary Oliver

I wanted to speak at length about the happiness of my body and the delight of my mind for it was April, a night, a full moon and --

but something in myself or maybe from somewhere other said: not too many words, please, in the muddy shallows the

Frogs are singing.

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Instructions on Not Giving Up

Ada Limón

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David Richo, How to Be an Adult in Love

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Mind Your Pillars (2022) oil pastel on paper 51.5 x 79 cm shop: suhaylah.bigcartel.com ig: @suhaylah.h

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permafrost (2021) oil pastel on paper

shop: suhaylah.bigcartel.com instagram: @suhaylah.h

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Bryan Pearce (British, 1929-2007), Pink Flowers in Glass Jug, 1982. Oil and pencil on board, 60.5 x 50.5 cm.

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Claudia Williams (British, b. 1933)

Collecting Shells, Moonlight, 1990

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The Last Sip (2021) Shop: suhaylah.bigcartel.com Patreon: patreon.com/suhaylah_h IG: @suhaylah.h  

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details of untitled/green landscape (2018) find prints of this painting in my shop: suhaylah.bigcartel.com instagram: @suhaylah.h

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Fen Sprite Sighting (2023) oil pastel on paper

Instagram: @suhaylah.h Shop: suhaylah.bigcartel.com Patreon: patreon.com/suhaylah_h

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Softly Spoken (A Moment in the Valley) (2023) oil on wood panel

Instagram: @suhaylah.h Shop: suhaylah.bigcartel.com Patreon: patreon.com/suhaylah_h

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Ramón Enrich (Spanish, 1986), Laberint Monzò, 2023. Oil on canvas, 162 x 130 cm.

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Lovers Sempiternal (2022) oil on wood panel Shop: suhaylah.bigcartel.com Patreon: patreon.com/suhaylah_h IG: @suhaylah.h