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#Afghanistan An Afghan blacksmith works at a shop in Kandahar. @AFPphoto: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 25 April 2017
Thomas Wyatt: There was never ffile
There was never ffile half so well filed
To file a file for every smythes intent
As I was made a filing instrument
To frame othre while I was begiled
But reason hath at my follie smyled
And pardond me syns that I me repent
Of my lost yeres & tyme myspent
For yeuth did me lede & falshode guyded
Yet this trust I have of full great aperaunce
Syns that decept is ay retourneable
Of very force it is aggreable
That therewithall be done the recompence
Then gile beguiled plained should be never
And the reward little trust for ever /
Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542): There was never ffile (n.d.); text: Devonshire MS. Add17492 (British Museum)
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#Nigeria A member of Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) screens an old person at the entrance of the town of Damasak. @Floplaucheur: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 April 2017
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#Iraq A man walking amidst wrecked vehicles, some previously used as barricades, piled in a junkyard in Mosul. Photo @ahmadgharabi4: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 April 2017
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#Nigeria A boy sells boiled eggs on the outskirts of the town of Damasak. @Floplaucheur: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 April 2017
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#Argentina Villa 31 is the oldest and most emblematic slum in Buenos Aires. @chatoeitan #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 April 2017
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#Iraq Displaced Iraqis from western Mosul arrive at the Hammam al-Alil camp during #MosulOffensive. Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 April 2017
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#South Africa Clashes in farming town after protests over police handling of a murder inquiry. @mlongari: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 April 2017
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#Iraq Displaced Iraqis from western Mosul arrive at the Hammam al-Alil camp during #MosulOffensive. Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 April 2017
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#China A man stands in his workshop in Baoding, in China's Hebei province. @freddufour_afp: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 April 2017
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#Mexico Dozens of municipal tanker trucks in Mexico City distribute water in neighborhoods that do not receive piped water. Photo @YuriYurisky: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 April 2017
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#India A statue of the Hindu god Lord Krishna is seen at a cow shelter in New Delhi. Photo @Money_Sharma #afp: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 April 2017
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SYRIA - Hundreds gather in Damascus to mourn the victims of a suicide bombing that struck during a landmark evacuation. Photo Louai Beshara: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 April 2017
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Ann Coulter cancels her speech at Berkeley amid safety dispute: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 26 April 2017
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Trump proposes slashing business tax rate to 15 percent: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 26 April 2017
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'Fist bumps' at hedge funds over Trump's tax plan: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 26 April 2017
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Trump's plan to slash business taxes seen as 'guidepost' by congressional Republicans: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 26 April 2017
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Trump's tax cut proposal shines light on MLPs: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 26 April 2017
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Per HUD 2015 Homeless Assessment report to Congress, 70.8% percent of unsheltered people are male. #forgottenman #homeless #men: image via Stephen Crowley @Stcrow, 26 April 2017
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[Portland]: photo by Lucas DeShazer, 24 April 2017
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[Portland]: photo by Lucas DeShazer, 24 April 2017
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[Portland]: photo by Lucas DeShazer, 24 April 2017
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[Portland]: photo by Lucas DeShazer, 18 April 2017
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[Portland]: photo by Lucas DeShazer, 18 April 2017
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[Portland]: photo by Lucas DeShazer, 18 April 2017
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Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 8 April 2017
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Feel Better. A woman from the Stockton Blvd street life, who still wears the fashion of fitness whenever I see her, takes a break near the former Shanty, a small bar that has been barricaded since three of the four old roadside motels near here (echoes of the former US Route 99), closed and wiped out much of its regular clientele: photo by Rick Ele, 20 April 2017
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No one is their president. No one has been their president in decades. Stockton Blvd (old US 99), South Sacramento.: photo by Rick Ele, 20 April 2017
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No one is their president. No one has been their president in decades. Stockton Blvd (old US 99), South Sacramento.: photo by Rick Ele, 20 April 2017
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No one is their president. No one has been their president in decades. Stockton Blvd (old US 99), South Sacramento.: photo by Rick Ele, 20 April 2017
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Practice. Berkeley Marina.: photo by efo, 24 April 2017
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Practice. Berkeley Marina.: photo by efo, 24 April 2017
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Practice. Berkeley Marina.: photo by efo, 24 April 2017
Easter lilies in window on Fresno, bringing
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2017-92. Berkeley, CA.: photo by biosfear, April 2017
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Covered car compo [south LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 26 April 2017
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Semi dock [LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 26 April 2017
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LA: photo by Andrew Murr, 23 April 2017
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North Chinatown: photo by Andrew Murr, 21 April 2017
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Night palm tree [DTLA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 24 April 2017
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Car seat [south LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 25 April 2017
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Caddy: photo by Andrew Murr, 23 April 2017
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Magpie Creek [North Highlands, Sacramento]: photo by Rick Ele, 25 April 2017
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Magpie Creek [North Highlands, Sacramento]: photo by Rick Ele, 25 April 2017
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Magpie Creek [North Highlands, Sacramento]: photo by Rick Ele, 25 April 2017
There was never ffile half so well filed
To file a file for every smythes intent
As I was made a filing instrument
To frame othre while I was begiled
But reason hath at my follie smyled
And pardond me syns that I me repent
Of my lost yeres & tyme myspent
For yeuth did me lede & falshode guyded
Yet this trust I have of full great aperaunce
Syns that decept is ay retourneable
Of very force it is aggreable
That therewithall be done the recompence
Then gile beguiled plained should be never
And the reward little trust for ever /
Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542): There was never ffile (n.d.); text: Devonshire MS. Add17492 (British Museum)
SYRIA - A Syrian boy stands against a bullet-riddled wall in the rebel-held town of Douma. Photo @AbdDoumany: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 25 April 2017
#Nigeria A member of Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) screens an old person at the entrance of the town of Damasak. @Floplaucheur: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 April 2017
#Iraq A man walking amidst wrecked vehicles, some previously used as barricades, piled in a junkyard in Mosul. Photo @ahmadgharabi4: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 April 2017
#Nigeria A boy sells boiled eggs on the outskirts of the town of Damasak. @Floplaucheur: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 April 2017
#Argentina Villa 31 is the oldest and most emblematic slum in Buenos Aires. @chatoeitan #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 April 2017
#Iraq Displaced Iraqis from western Mosul arrive at the Hammam al-Alil camp during #MosulOffensive. Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 April 2017
#South Africa Clashes in farming town after protests over police handling of a murder inquiry. @mlongari: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 April 2017
#Iraq Displaced Iraqis from western Mosul arrive at the Hammam al-Alil camp during #MosulOffensive. Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 April 2017
#China A man stands in his workshop in Baoding, in China's Hebei province. @freddufour_afp: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 April 2017
#Mexico Dozens of municipal tanker trucks in Mexico City distribute water in neighborhoods that do not receive piped water. Photo @YuriYurisky: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 April 2017
#India A statue of the Hindu god Lord Krishna is seen at a cow shelter in New Delhi. Photo @Money_Sharma #afp: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 April 2017
SYRIA - Hundreds gather in Damascus to mourn the victims of a suicide bombing that struck during a landmark evacuation. Photo Louai Beshara: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 April 2017
Ann Coulter cancels her speech at Berkeley amid safety dispute: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 26 April 2017
Simple pic speaks to #Merkel cultivating the Trumps. Less "what do you think" than "look who we have here." #Ivanka #W20 @ReutersPictures: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 26 April 2017
Trump proposes slashing business tax rate to 15 percent: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 26 April 2017
'Fist bumps' at hedge funds over Trump's tax plan: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 26 April 2017
Trump's plan to slash business taxes seen as 'guidepost' by congressional Republicans: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 26 April 2017
Trump's tax cut proposal shines light on MLPs: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 26 April 2017
Per HUD 2015 Homeless Assessment report to Congress, 70.8% percent of unsheltered people are male. #forgottenman #homeless #men: image via Stephen Crowley @Stcrow, 26 April 2017
Easter Lilies
[Portland]: photo by Lucas DeShazer, 24 April 2017
[Portland]: photo by Lucas DeShazer, 24 April 2017
[Portland]: photo by Lucas DeShazer, 24 April 2017
[Portland]: photo by Lucas DeShazer, 18 April 2017
[Portland]: photo by Lucas DeShazer, 18 April 2017
[Portland]: photo by Lucas DeShazer, 18 April 2017
Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 8 April 2017
Feel Better. A woman from the Stockton Blvd street life, who still wears the fashion of fitness whenever I see her, takes a break near the former Shanty, a small bar that has been barricaded since three of the four old roadside motels near here (echoes of the former US Route 99), closed and wiped out much of its regular clientele: photo by Rick Ele, 20 April 2017
No one is their president. No one has been their president in decades. Stockton Blvd (old US 99), South Sacramento.: photo by Rick Ele, 20 April 2017
No one is their president. No one has been their president in decades. Stockton Blvd (old US 99), South Sacramento.: photo by Rick Ele, 20 April 2017
No one is their president. No one has been their president in decades. Stockton Blvd (old US 99), South Sacramento.: photo by Rick Ele, 20 April 2017
Practice. Berkeley Marina.: photo by efo, 24 April 2017
Practice. Berkeley Marina.: photo by efo, 24 April 2017
Practice. Berkeley Marina.: photo by efo, 24 April 2017
Easter Lilies
Easter lilies in window on Fresno, bringing
back early maunderings
upon the idea of death, plain and simple, or
cosmetically clothed in familiar
ritual mollifications of
an ordinary uncanny or uncanny
ordinary, in which everybody lived
but only for a while... Then later
God would be there, positioned on a sort of dais
made of blue vaporous cloud
or else simply upon something large and vague
and your childish mind would be ever alive, wondering
what kind of lounge furniture do they have in heaven
a cloud, awash in a soft spray of golden
yellowish light... God-light... perhaps extending a hand
or more likely ignoring your presence
as though you hadn't really died
yet, but were just being treated to a brief
preview of the festivities, which for that
matter didn't really appear to have anything festive in them
certainly no creaturely joy or solid colour or sweet wild song
for without the material world, how
throw together a halfway decent festivity?
Is there no change of death in paradise?
When they roll away the stone, does light pour in?
Are there, like... snacks?
The idea of death
in the mind of a child
is an idea wasted on an unformed mind
way back when, in the pre-world
before imagination died
God would be there, in that spray of golden
yellowish light
coming out of a bright mist of cloud
through which one might walk
or fall... that wide water
without sound
but for the soft calls of the wood doves
beside a pool in Palestine
along the Perkiomen,
the deer coming down to water,
the quail uttering their spontaneous cries
as Jesus walks off
with Pontius Pilate and Pontius Pilate's dog
into the stars, on a beam of light
but are these memories or dreams
or the mere last blurts of the imagination of the child
from under the pillowcase
in the moments of forgetting
something important, what is it again?
... what is there left to believe?
He walks with me and he talks
with me and he calls me his own
as we walk out into the cosmic dark
on the broad beam of light
across that wide water without sound
2017-92. Berkeley, CA.: photo by biosfear, April 2017
Covered car compo [south LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 26 April 2017
Semi dock [LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 26 April 2017
LA: photo by Andrew Murr, 23 April 2017
North Chinatown: photo by Andrew Murr, 21 April 2017
Night palm tree [DTLA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 24 April 2017
Car seat [south LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 25 April 2017
El [Griffith Park, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 22 April 2017
Caddy: photo by Andrew Murr, 23 April 2017
Magpie Creek [North Highlands, Sacramento]: photo by Rick Ele, 25 April 2017
Magpie Creek [North Highlands, Sacramento]: photo by Rick Ele, 25 April 2017
Magpie Creek [North Highlands, Sacramento]: photo by Rick Ele, 25 April 2017