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Edward Dorn: 1st Avenue
.1stAvenue between Union and Pike, Seattle: photographer unknown, September 1972 (Seattle Municipal Archives)The truck shot forward across 1st Avenue to the Pike Street Market. Through the rain,...
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Robert Creeley / Ernst Halberstadt: Somewhere
.Switch House at the Taunton railroad crossing: photo by Ernst Halberstadt, April 1973The galloping collection of boards are the house which I afforded one evening to walk into just as the night came...
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Children's Games
. Children's Games: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559-60, oil on wood, 118 x 161 cm (Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna)The system of a game in which everyone is a player The game an enclosed systemThere is...
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D. H. Lawrence: The Grudge of the Old
.Susanna and the Elders: Gert Van Ort, 1520-25, stained glass, diameter 24 cm (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)The old ones want to be young, and they aren't young,and it rankles, they ache when...
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They Have Gone
.Cliff Palace was once a village of over 200 people and 23 kivas (ceremonial spaces), Mesa Verde, Montezuma County, ColoradoUp there in their eyriewhere the winds swirleagles afloat on thermalsthe...
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The Good Man
.Dead Christ supported by the Madonna and St John (Pietà) (detail): Giovanni Bellini, 1460, tempera on panel (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)''I do not know these good men," replied the prisoner.''Is that...
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Stevie Smith: Yes, I know
.Portrait of a woman (thought to be Lucrezia Borgia): Bartolomeo Veneto (1470-1531), 1520-25, tempera and oil on poplar panel, 44 x 35 cm (Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt)That pale face stretches...
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Wrong from the Start (Deviant Easter Egg)
.Egg of Columbus: photo by Jacper "Kangel" Aniolek, 27 January 2007The path of least resistance is a straight line but once you deviateeven slightlythe path of leastresistance becomesthat of greaterand...
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Robert Creeley: One Day (A Poetry Comic by Nora Sawyer)
. Robert Creeley: One Day (A Poetry Comic), from Nora Sawyer, 31 March 2013 ("All of these photos are from my morning ferry ride to work" -- N.S.) R.C.: One Day, from Thirty Things, 1974
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What Americans Believe
.Sermon and Deeds of the Antichrist: Luca Signorelli (c. 1450-1523), 1499-1502, fresco, width 700 cm(Chapel of San Brizio, Duomo, Orvieto)20% of Republican voters believe that President Obama is the...
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Robert Creeley: So There
.Persian lacquer binding, 18th century: cover of Persian manuscript: Collected Works of Ḥāfiẓ: Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ [?1799] (Rare Books and Fine Printing Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library,...
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D. H. Lawrence: Dies Irae
. Night gnome: photo by Alex Holden, 31 July 2012 Even the old emotions are finished,we have worn them out.And desire is dead.And the end of all things is inside us.Our epoch is over,a cycle of...
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Cathedraltown
.The Cathedral of the Transfiguration, Markham, Ontario, Sunrise: photo by Jian Zhan, 9 August 2011 All conclusions were foregone before all beginningscame. A kid on a skate board rolling down a nearly...
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Fallen
.A German Hannover CL.IIIa (serial no. 3892/18) airplane brought down in the Forest of Argonne by American machine gunners between Montfaucon and Cierges, France, showing black crosses with white...
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Messages from the Underground
.Many subway cars in New York City have been spray-painted by vandalsIt's unnatural to manto go down among the dead in the light of lost worlds. In the darknessof lost wordsthe handwriting on the wall...
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Slag (Coal Country, Appalachia)
.Loaded coal cars sit in the rail yards at Danville, West Virginia, near Charleston, awaiting shipment to customers. It is one of the largest transshipment points for coal in the world. A constant...
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The Indifferent Man (Things We Will Never Know)
. It was the darkest of places, yet it was his favorite one. Nothing could stop him from going back to it day after day. Down, where fumes are so dense they make you dizzy. More dizzy every day:...
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Clark Coolidge: Library of Hay (at Manikin Lake, with Onyx Dolls)
.Possum Kingdom Bikini Mannequin, Pickwick, Texas. In this image, you have a plastic mannequin with blonde hair, and a bikini, standing outside the La Vida Loca Beach Wear store on Possum Kingdom Lake....
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Older
.Prunus mume, "Nankoume", Minabe, Wakayama prefecture: photo by highland 663, 2009.....With every falling petal,The plum branches.....Grow older. With every falling petal: Buson (1716-1784), translated...
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e. e. cummings: [In Just-] (A Poetry Comic by Nora Sawyer)
.e. e. cummings (1894-1962): [in Just-], first published in The Dial, vol. LXVIII, No. 5 (May 1920); Poetry Comic from Nora Sawyer, 7 April 2013 There’s something about spring that makes cummings...
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