“If the full moon loves you, why worry about the stars?”— Tunisian proverb
“Honey-bodied beautiful one, come forth from iron, red your heart is. Fragile-tender, fragile-tender life-body,”— D. H. Lawrence, from Selected Poems and Writings; “Almond Blossom,”
“Arms like roses,”— Sappho, tr. by Josephine Balmer, from “Poems and Fragments,” c. 1984
next years mood is love, same as always