A new photo blog to check out

Woolf and Wilde, which I came across totally on chance, combines vintage photos of 'queer' embrace and the like with texts from gay and lesbian authors or somehow otherwise queer. (Some queer theorist out there is groaning. Whatev. It's a photo blog!)  Surf on over! Note: some of the photos might be NSFW, believe it or not.  Those olden time folks had racy photos, too!

A recent photo of two men wrestling was coupled with this poem from Mutsuo Takahashi:

You are a murderer

No you are not, but really a wrestler

Either way it's just the same

For from the ring of your entangled body

Clean as leather, lustful as a lily

Will nail me down

On your stout neck like a column, like a pillar of tendons

The thoughtful forehead

(In fact, it's thinking nothing)

When the forehead slowly moves and closes the heavy eyelids

Inside, a dark forest awakens

A forest of red parrots

Seven almonds and grape leaves

At the end of the forest a vine

Covers the house where two boys

Lie in each others arms: I'm one of them, you the other

In the house, melancholy and terrible anxiety

Outside the keyhole, a sunset

Dyed with the blood of the beautiful bullfighter Escamillo

Scorched by the sunset, headlong, headfirst

Falling, falling, a gymnast

If you're going to open your eyes, nows the time, wrestler