( oil painting by me / via )

The Grave of Sir Gawain.

“Barking dogs will be choosers” —@borkenaesop

"At a jazz performance (or a classical one), music-lovers are more likely to 'overhear' conversations between the performer/composer and the quoted source. Although musicologists help listeners decipher the quotes, the composer's responsibility doesn’t include citation."

“On Thought in Harness

My falcon to my wrist
Returns
From no high air.
I sent her toward the sun that burns
Above the mist;
But she has not been there.
Her talons are not cold; her beak
Is closed upon no wonder;
Her head stinks of its hood, her feathers reek
Of me, that quake at the thunder.

Degraded bird, I give you back your eyes forever, ascend now whither you are tossed;
Forsake this wrist, forsake this rhyme;
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost,
But climb.”

—Edna St Vincent Millay

Songbirds 2026, Waka Anthology.