we begin in the dark

 Seascape, 1878

wendell berry, from “sabbath poems” / david hockney, “lake house, como, rain” / octavio paz, from “as one listens to the rain” tr. eliot weinberger / anne michaels “rain makes its own night” / kawase hasui, “rain at ōmiya” / jean rhys, from “wide sargasso sea” / little forest (2018), dir. yim soon-rye / mary oliver, from “comfort” / only yesterday (1991), dir. isao takahata / tatsuji miyoshi, from “great aso” tr. edith shiffert & yuki sawa

Walter Crâne, Dryads & Naiads

“garden“

margaret atwood, power politics (1971)

A Garden Stroll by Auguste Toulmouche, 1829-1890.

ph. Svetlana Loboff

Film posters for Robert Eggers’ The Witch by Midnight Marauder.

carpe noctem

— excerpt from war of the foxes: “birds over the trampled field” by richard siken

Dark academia

gardens of hortulus, poland