"King Penguin singing": Two King Penguins (Aptenoydes patagonicus patagonicus), South Georgia Island: photo by Lt. Philip Hall, NOAA, 1994-95 (NOAA photo library)
Fidelity, after long practice, to
The things that have crossed one's path in life,
Moves one to find "history" in a morning,
A moonlit night, a transitory patch
Of sun upon grass, the turning of a cat's
Sleek head over its shoulder to look back
Into one's eyes, a lifelong lover's touch,
The memory of the shy sweet sidelong
Smile of a friend one may not see again
In "this life"--these things define home
To one now that one lives largely in one's mind--
As though there had ever been any other
Place -- once born, once having existed --
In which to somehow locate a world
The things that have crossed one's path in life,
Moves one to find "history" in a morning,
A moonlit night, a transitory patch
Of sun upon grass, the turning of a cat's
Sleek head over its shoulder to look back
Into one's eyes, a lifelong lover's touch,
The memory of the shy sweet sidelong
Smile of a friend one may not see again
In "this life"--these things define home
To one now that one lives largely in one's mind--
As though there had ever been any other
Place -- once born, once having existed --
In which to somehow locate a world
Because brief hours before fadeout life becomes
A late awakening, much as one assumesIs the experience of "lost" generations
Whose youth is turned back toward childhood by
Dreams; just so one's own dim youth now at last
Appears a kind of slumber from which the slow
Process of waking took a half century
Or so, as time now opens up its eyes,
Yawns, stretches, struggles in dark to discover
Where it is among whirling things, places, years.
But of course one will never fully emerge
From this fog, nor in one's heart wish to do so,
For mere excursions don't suffice on visits
To dead cities -- excavation too's required,
Cries out the hungry unborn poem
Within us, demanding to exist as
If alive
for Angelica x 50
King Penguins (Aptenoydes patagonicus patagonicus), East Falkland Island: photo by Ben Tubby, 18 March 2007
King Penguins (Aptenoydes patagonicus patagonicus), East Falkland Island: photo by Ben Tubby, 18 March 2007
Magellanic Penguins, East Falkland Island: photo by Ben Tubby, 18 March 2007
A freshly hatched chick rests after strong efforts to break through the egg in the zoo in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018.: photo by Michael Probst/AP, 23 January 2018
A freshly hatched chick rests after strong efforts to break through the egg in the zoo in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018.: photo by Michael Probst/AP, 23 January 2018
Melancholy Watch, The Downs (Keats leaves England, September 1820)
Jetty: Margate: Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), 1840s, watercolour over graphite pencil on paper, 23 x 32.8 cm (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
My melancholy watch, mid-quarter-deck,
Drifting: I follow the play of gulls.
The sun is long gone down, the east darkling,
The ship drifts. In the west, some brightness remains.
Momently there are two flights of gulls moving
One to the east into the dark and one
Out of the west, in the last rays of the sun,
Left and right so entirely dissimilar
That the name gull quite falls from them
As I watch, and the chiaroscuro
Of the evening is torn open, altering
Everything: so that now everything is
Only itself: the gulls, myself closer
In nature than if I still knew their name,
Yet at the same time moving farther out,
Sinking deeper into a fading sky
Which soaks them up like ink accepting water,
Coaxing darkness out of reluctant night,
Bringing on the abolition of that false
Identity which made naming possible.
TC: Melancholy Watch, the Downs (September 1820), from Junkets on a Sad Planet: Scenes from the Life of John Keats, 1994
Landscape with a River and a Bay in the Background: Joseph Mallord William Turner, c.1842, oil on canvas, 91 x 122 cm (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Salvaged from the Deep Keats Scrolls (1987-2007)
I Negative Capability
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II Want of an Object
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III On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
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IV Byron on Keats
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Weston nearing the end... (Or Not)
Santa Anas - Fire down south [Hollywood Hills]: photo by Andrew Murr, 11 February 2018
Blue 657 dingbat [LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 11 February 2018
Or Not [Hollywood Hills]: photo by Andrew Murr, 2 February 2018
Geometry, debris [Eastside, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 9 February 2018
Secrets [Hollywood]: photo by Andrew Murr, 8 February 2018
Dabney's [south LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 8 February 2018
Early evening off Hoover [south LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 7 February 2018
37th Street[LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 7 February 2018
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The feed: photo by Andrew Murr, 6 February 2018
Succulents on a wall [Hollywood Hills]: photo by Andrew Murr, 6 February 2018
201 Aqua [Eastside, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 5 February 2018
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Sears vanishing point [Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood]: photo by Andrew Murr, 5 February 2018
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Palm frond antenna [Echo Park, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 4 February 2018
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Sears vanishing point [Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood]: photo by Andrew Murr, 5 February 2018
Palm frond antenna [Echo Park, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 4 February 2018
Untitled [LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 4 February 2018
Park Ave. hotel [125th Street, NYC]: photo by Andrew Murr, 28 January 2018
Orange dress airport color |Travelers at Tokyo's in-town airport seemed to be playing "50 Shades of Grey" with their wardrobes -- grey, black and more grey. The folks from Garuda were a welcome, fully chromatic relief. [Garuda Airlines, Tokyo]: photo by Andrew Murr, 18 December 2016
Stop action, Orland, California: photo by Andrew Murr, 17 August 2017
People investigating Sunset Blvd. | People investigating Sunset Blvd in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles on a rather warm So. Cal winter day. This is at the intersection of Hyperion and Sunset Blvd. To the right is the infamous Black Cat!: photo by joey zanotti, 27 January 2017
Untitled [los angeles}: photo by live..simply, 11 February 2018
Untitled [los angeles}: photo by live..simply, 11 February 2018
Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, 9February 2018
Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, 9February 2018
Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, 9February 2018
Hate Is A Sin | NYC: photo by czolacz, 28 October 2017
Hate Is A Sin | NYC: photo by czolacz, 28 October 2017
Hate Is A Sin | NYC: photo by czolacz, 28 October 2017
Needles, Arizona: photo by Dean Terasaki, 17 October 2017
Needles, Arizona: photo by Dean Terasaki, 17 October 2017
Needles, Arizona: photo by Dean Terasaki, 17 October 2017
Terra Bella, CA: photo by Mike Murphy, 29 December 2017
Terra Bella, CA: photo by Mike Murphy, 29 December 2017
Terra Bella, CA: photo by Mike Murphy, 29 December 2017
Weston nearing the end... | Edward Weston, a year or two removed from Charis, shown here in a screen cap from a modest little USIA film on the photographer out scouting locations with an unnamed 'apprentice' (how appropriate) at the wheel. I frankly don't think Weston ever learned to drive, always depending on assistants or fellow photographers to get around. I could be wrong about that, just my impression. He is here quietly dealing with his recent divorce and a diagnosis of Parkinson's which will end his career this same year.Screen grab from The Photographer Edward Weston, 1948.: photo by Michael Ryerson, 11 February 2018
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The turn: photo by YZ [Street], 31 May 2017
The turn: photo by YZ [Street], 31 May 2017
The turn: photo by YZ [Street], 31 May 2017
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Please do not stand on the stairs! | [Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart / Yi Architects] -- the funny thing is that i was told not to stand on the stairs while taking pictures... but obviously without a camera it's allowed :) enjoy!: photo by YZ [Street], 21 June 2017
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Red: photo by YZ [Street], sometime in 2017
Red: photo by YZ [Street], sometime in 2017
Red: photo by YZ [Street], sometime in 2017