“Black skies of metal. Pale and mournful.”
— Georg Trakl, tr. by Will Stone, from To The Silenced: Poems; “Winter Dusk,”
“Black skies of metal. Pale and mournful.”
— Georg Trakl, tr. by Will Stone, from To The Silenced: Poems; “Winter Dusk,”
Ingeborg Bachmann, from In the Storm of Roses: Selected Poems; “Fog Land,” wr. c. 1956
‘Spot’ sampler (English, 17th century).
Silk embroidery on linen.




Illustrations by John Leech for the first edition of Charles Dickens’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1843).
Merry Christmas to everyone, ho ho ho!
Anonymous asked:
What a cheerful holiday wish 🤭