Affaire Mortal

OSCULANT

[adjective]

1. pertaining to a close embrace or a long kiss.

2. closely adhering or joined; embracing.

3. Biology: intermediate in characteristics between two similar or related taxonomic groups.

Etymology: from Latin ōsculārī, “to kiss”.

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Original: by Alphonse Inoue

Artwork by Robin Isely

Octavio Paz, ‘Letter of Testimony’, A Tree Within (trans. Eliot Weinberger)

Edward Scissorhands kiss by Jane Wilson

The Night Escorted by the Geniuses of Study and Love, 1883

Pedro Américo (1843 – 1905)

‘death-kiss’

The Meeting   -    Antonio Ambrogio Alciati 

Italian  1878-1929

Pastel on paper

Come to mama.