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Pietro Canonica. “L'abisso” (The Abyss) .Detail, 1869 .

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© Nona Limmen Webshop / Instagram

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“I want to be haunted. I want autumn, flowers bathed in blood, the sort of intensity that weighs me down against my own will.”

— Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth: Poems; “Autumn Psalm,”

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he’s made of gold

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in the night she’s dancing to relieve the pain

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Tapestry of sculptures, II.

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Dionysus is the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy in ancient Greek religion and myth. He is a god of epiphany, “the god that comes”, and his “foreignness” as an arriving outsider-god may be inherent and essential to his cults.

Bacchus, Dionysus - burst into life, burst into being, be a mighty bull, a hundred-headed snake, a fire-breathing lion.

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Sitting Dionysus from Neo-Attic Relief - marble statue, circa c. AD, from Roman period, Museum of Naples.

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Winged Victory of Samothrace

Greek, 2nd century BC. Marble sculpture of Nike, discovered on the island of Samothrace.

Louvre Museum, Paris.

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– The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller