CHERUBIC.

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Sibylle Peretti - Rising Fawn II

detail from Caravaggio’s Saint John in the Wilderness // 1604

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini The Ecstasy of Saint Therese , Cappella Cornaro, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome.

The morning song. 1883. Book cover, detail.

Saint John the Baptist (detail), 1602-1603, Caravaggio.

Gdańsk, Poland

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act V Scene II

Euripides, from “Orestes”, An Oresteia (trans. Anne Carson)

— Stephen Dunn, from Between Angels: Poems; “Clarities,”

oil on canvas

we sin as devils do, we love as angels

— José Angel Araguz, from Everything We Think We Hear; “The Beautiful Poems,”

Light and flight and all that was holy, holy, holy.