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Ode to mid-summer luxuriance

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Aug 15, 2024
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Frida Kahlo, Viva la vida, 1954

“In summer the song / sings itself”—this line from Williams Carlos Williams’ The Botticellian Trees has been in my head for the last several weeks.

I love the look of August.

After weeks of heatwave, skies appear fatigued. The trees, too, seem saturated. August is a faded month, here in the heartland of summer, a month of mystery doors:

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