As if we could scrape the color off the iris and still see.
-Maggie Nelson, Bluets
Image: Gyorgy Kepes, Juliet Kepes with Peacock Feather, 1939 +
Title: Nod to Edmond Jabès, from “After the Deluge” as found in If There Were Anywhere but Desert: The Selected Poems of Edmond Jabès