On leaving you playfully punched my left shoulder. The sensation remains But your voice fades The sensation remains But your image fades I short of breath tremble I think you’ve cracked a rib. —“Gone but Not Forgotten”, by Maud Sulter (1960–2008) born #OTD, 19 Sep – a 🎂 🧵 1/8

☝️📷: self-portrait of Maud Sulter as Jeanne Duval, the mistress of Charles Baudelaire, representing Calliope. From “Zabat”, a series of portraits of creative black women by Sulter, showing each woman as one of the 9 Muses. The series is held by the V&A 2/8 collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O134377...

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'Calliope', dye destruction print, Zabat series, Maud Sulter, 1989