words waiting to be magnetically assembled

Japanese umbrellas, Wagasa. Japan. Photography by Chajimori on Ganref

there is this flow, there is this river and finding it again and again

from the beginning always forever

I moonbathed diligently, as others sunbathe. Denise Levertov

And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light. Gustave Flaubert

Ahoi mit Minimalismus und Poesie. 🌊🌊🌊🐬🐬☀️🩵☮️ #FokussiereWasGutTut #Mixedmedia #Collage #assemblage #LifeIsABeach #cleanupthebeach #Scherbenbringenglück #Meerliebe #DerBlauePlanet

Max Ernst, Sea and Moon, 1925

the balance between moon and sun on a rainy winter day

soul cracks through ice

song at dawn Ph. Laura Makabresku

Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. Terry Tempest Williams

All he could do was wait like this, patiently, until it grew light out and the birds awoke and began their day. All he could do was trust in the birds, in all the birds, with their wings and beaks. Haruki Murakami

this whole universe in a galaxy of starfish

once upon a time a red suitcase

Vietnamese artist Vu Bach Lien, Snow path, 2014, woodcut print #WomensArt

Dirk Schulte Winterstillleben mit Schirmträgerin 2024

thinking flowing drifting in this cloud of snowy air

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day. Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

sometimes all of a sudden

unusual moments of solitude solitude in unusual moments

Since I find myself missing the sea today— A thread of writing published in 2025, beginning with the latest: excerpts in Socrates on the Beach @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social from An Absence of Sea, forthcoming in April 2026 with @erratumpress.bsky.social socratesonthebeach.com/christina-an...

Geometric sculpture by Japanese glass artist Ikuta Niyoko #WomensArt

emotional topography landscapes and cities

and still the rain

To write something that will be worthy of that rising moon, that pale light. Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield Notebooks

infinite dreams in just one word

a traveler’s heart should look like flowers Basho

outside the train window a rainy lake

the soft call of a collared dove and far beyond a crow’s cawing

"Kyoto -- falling straight down the first winter rain" Issa Kobayashi (image: rain in Kiyomizu temple, Takeji Asano)

Lilian May Miller (1895-1943) was a US woodblock printmaker and poet born in Tokyo, who was influenced by a Japanese printmaking style of strong colours and bold design #Womensart

Marcella Giulia Pace, Italian astrophotographer who took ten years to capture 48 colours of the moon #WomensArt (via Amazing Physics) #FullMoon

and then the sun left the sky’s sapphire to the moon

moon and sun meeting in a brightly azure sky

november rain at the seaside

circus music from the small lake over the cemetery up to the wood

Sarah Moon Langage des signes, 2001.

Yorkshire-based artist and printmaker Pippa Dyrlaga who creates intricate paper cut artworks #womensart

more synapses in our brain than stars in our galaxy beauty

light breezes from the lake leaves dancing in the air

A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. And this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate. John Berger, Confabulations

Shima Tamami (1937-1999), an influential Japanese printmaker who joined a Women's Print Association in her country, mid 20th century, at a time when women in the arts struggled to receive the same resources and promotion as their male equivalents #ReframingWomensPrintmakers

a soft and radical transition behind the apparent calm

Von den losen Enden dieser Welt.

Amy Friend, 'I Will Look For You In The Depth Of Blue' (from the series 'Dare alla Luce', 2024)

a smooth gradient into adularescence