Melissa O’Neil Instagram – Puuuurrrrrrr. 🎐
Reflecting on some snaps from work the other day… Under the canopy of trees and glittering sunlight, I can’t help but feel drawn to some of the incomparable prosody from the women of the Heian court of Imperial Japan. The refinement* and distillation* of the experience of nature into words – including the nature of love… is comfortably quieting and, well – terribly erotic.
Enjoy.
“If this were a dream
I would surely see you again—
why must waking love
be left incomplete?”
-Ono No Komachi
“Since nothing surpasses
seeing you,
no need for words.
Only concentrate on this,
on this . . . “
-Izumi Shikibu
Translations by: Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani. | Posted on 12/Sep/2024 01:45:49
