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There’s more to a mother than the kitchen at night with everything put back and the oven light on. There is, for example, her big leather purse. The sadness of her birthdays. Her cursive singing voice. The way her dry white calves eventually became your own. Simone Harris And happy 77th birthday to Miuccia Prada,… Read more
“The stranger, wond’ring, stalks, and stares upon
Rome’s antique glories, in her ruins seen;
He sees high arches, huge shining heaps of stone,
Maim’d, mutil’d, murder’d, by years’ wasteful teen:
He sees a rugged, ragged, rocky quarr
Hang in the air, with ivy laced about.
O! what can last, alas! (then cries he out)
Sith Time hath conquer’d the world’s conqueror?”
Joshua Sylvester | “Rome, Conqueror, Conquered”