The Lovers’ Chronicle 28 December – not to know – art by Félix Vallotton, Lili Elbe & Vladimir Tatlin

Dear Zazie,  Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag dedicated to his muse.  Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle 

Dear Muse,

went with a song you definitely know;
“I don’t want to know the reasons why
Love keeps right on walking on down the line”
“From their Rumours album, written
by Stevie and I know every word”
and now we know the reason,
love kept on down the line
because it was waitin’
for us to meet

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appreciation, for the sun comin’ up, the light on the water or comin’ over the hills or mountains, the way it shines in your hair, for a beautiful melody, lyrics that touch, readin’ well formed sentences, for art that moves and movies that stir, for the lines i write, for you, for what i have come to know

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another for the files,
that was then, this now

for us and the discovery we made together
from shared curiosity, common interests
in literature, art, movies, music, language
a dance for one that became one for two
and better for this duet, we came to know

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Pale Love, Pale Rider

grace, hope, faith
dare say, salvation

feelin’ indigenous
immersed in the verse

to feel you deserve
to be with someone

to know what it is
to love well,
to be well loved

somethin’
never understood

what time is it

to find out, to learn
to crawl above the past

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nothin’ but sad ones
on this day
till now

i want to use the words,
joy and happiness
words i have never used
but they seem not enough
to convey where i am now

there must be better
words that can describe
these overwhelmin’ feelin’s

maybe these two
are all i need

with you

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in the arms of the moment
forever mingles

“Make the same oath.”

always bold words,
with astonishment hear
the breath of faith

live so little
why this promise
impetus of hope
a vain challenge

“It is to know.”

an unyieldin’ voice
implacable
no escapin’

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one of the chosen
i believe that to be so
there are others
this is not an exclusive club

too long, too far, too stubborn,
there are too many too’s to list

some git to know, some do not
no point in dwellin’ on why
would not be here otherwise
pursuin’ the one true purpose

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thanks Bret

“There is no grace,
no hope, no faith
there is no salvation
no one for you
only words,
only verse!”

finally feel indigenous
immersed in the verse

“To make you feel
you deserve
to be with someone.”

deserve has got nothin’
to do with it

“What time is love?”

there is no time

to not know
what it is to love well
or to be well loved

somethin’
you will never
understand

why can i not
crawl above this

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Once I would have said;
Led into temptation
Now I say;
I found it

***

not really
but if it were…
beside
a slow-movin’ river
and later
in the dark
when we opened
and we drank…
Which is the way it was

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Today is the birthday of Félix Vallotton (Félix Edouard Vallotton; Lausanne; December 28, 1865 – December 29, 1925 Paris); painter and printmaker associated with Les Nabis. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut.

In 1899 Vallotton married Gabrielle Rodrigues-Henriques, a wealthy young widow with three children, and in 1900 he attained French citizenship.

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Today is the birthday of Lili Elbe (Vejle, Denmark 28 December 1882 – 13 September 1931 Dresden, Weimar Republic); painter, transgender woman, and among the early recipients of gender-affirming surgery.

She was a painter under her birth name Einar Wegener. After transitioning in 1930, she changed her legal name to Lili Ilse Elvenes, stopped painting, and later adopted the surname Elbe. She was the first known recipient of a uterus transplant in attempt to achieve pregnancy, but died due to the subsequent complications.

The UK and US versions of her semi-autobiographical narrative were published posthumously in 1933 under the title Man into Woman: An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex. A film inspired by her life, The Danish Girl, was released in 2015 starring Eddie Redmayne as Elbe and Alicia Vikander as Gerta. An opera based on her life, Lili Elbe, composed by Tobias Picker, premiered in 2023.

Elbe met Gerda Gottlieb while they were students at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, and they married in 1904 when Gottlieb was nineteen and Elbe twenty-two. Gerda came from a conservative family, as her father was a vicar in the Lutheran church. They worked as illustrators, with Elbe specialising in landscape paintings while Gottlieb illustrated books and fashion magazines.

Elbe started dressing in women’s clothes after she found she enjoyed the stockings and heels she wore to fill in for Gottlieb’s model, actress Anna Larssen, who, on one occasion, had been late for a sitting. Larssen suggested the name Lili, and, by the 1920s, Elbe regularly presented with that name as a woman, attending various festivities and entertaining guests in her house. Gottlieb became famous for her paintings of beautiful women with haunting, almond-shaped eyes, dressed in chic apparel. The model for these depictions of petites femmes fatales was Elbe. Elbe stopped painting after her transition

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And today is the birthday of Vladimir Tatlin (Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin; Moscow 28 December [O.S. 16 December] 1885 – 31 May 1953 Moscow); painter, architect and stage-designer. Tatlin achieved fame as the architect who designed The Monument to the Third International, more commonly known as Tatlin’s Tower, which he began in 1919. With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Soviet avant-garde art movement of the 1920s, and he later became an important artist in the constructivist movement.

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thanks for stoppin’ by y’all

Mac Tag