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Words
.Intersection, Helvetia, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 23 December 2013Even in the middle of nowherethere are wordsGreat Trees, Helvetia, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 13 December 2013 Words turn...
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Myth
.III: photo by Petros Kotzabasis (pkomo), 11 February 2006Some out of fashion goddesses and gods made clay replicas of themselvesand called them their childrenand threw them into the firethen went...
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The Past
.Winter in Holland: photo by Leonard Freed (1929-2006), 1964; image by RachelRiley, 15 May 2013There is no such thing as a clean breakwith the pastChase it off, it comes sneaking straight backmuch as a...
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James Henry: Another
.Van Gogh in The Sky (New York): photo by DavidWatts1978, 23 December 2009 Another and another and another And still another sunset and sunrise,The same yet different, different and the same,Seen by me...
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Wislawa Szymborska: Letters of the Dead
.To Follow a Nebulous Shore (Prince Edward Island, Canada): photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 22 December 2013We read the letters of the dead like puzzled gods -- gods nevertheless, because we know...
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Atonal
.Boat and Yellow Hills: Selden Connor Gile (1877-1947), n.d., oil on canvas, 77.4 x 91.44 cm; image by Ed Bierman, 15 August 2013 (Oakland Museum of California)Melodious liquid warble in the plumTree...
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Masaccio's Tribute Money and the Triumph of Capital
. Tribute Money (detail: Peter hands the tribute money to the tax collector in front of his house): Masaccio (1401-1427 or 1428), 1426-27, fresco, 255 x 598 cm (Cappella Brancacci, Santa Maria del...
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"...seeth no man Gonzaga...": Andrea Mantegna: The Court of Gonzaga / Ezra...
.The Court of Gonzaga: Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), 1465-74, walnut oil on plaster, 805 x 807 cm (Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua) With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut...
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Laughing Place
.Flower: photo by efo, 15 December 2013 So then he wandered out into the street and began to testifySomething about life being a long journey of the soulAn endless voyaging turning into a voyaging with...
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D. H. Lawrence: Grief
.coastal tree, Tokonama: photo by Stephen Cairns, 25 November 2013The darkness steals the forms of all the queens. But oh, the palms of her two black hands are red!It is Death I fear so much, it is not...
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Thomas Hardy: Snow in the Suburbs
.White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) in snow storm: photo by Steve Byland, 14 December 2013........Every branch big with it,........Bent every twig with it;......Every fork like a white...
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Amiri Baraka: Monday in B-Flat
.Untitled [Newark]: photo by Joshua Perez (StrangeGoodness), 25 December 2013I can pray all day& God won’t come. But if I call 911 The Devil Be here in a minute!Amiri Baraka (b. Leroi Jones,...
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Recovered Memory
.Bubble 9 (macro of a frozen soap bubble): photo by David Cory, 8 January 2014We landed successfully on the alien planetbut after conducting required observations determined conditions were negativefor...
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Stevie Smith: In My Dreams
.[Untitled]: photo by :-) und trotzdem..., 20 August 2012In mydreams I am always saying goodbye and riding away, Whither and why I know not nor do I care. And the parting is sweet and the parting...
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Opaque
._A061137: photo by Caspar Claasen (Caspar_Claasen), 6 October 2013Toy ships or pilot fish are floating memories.And then, as the nonthreatening precorded sounds drift down the aisle, and echoes of...
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Express
.Forest Lawn Cemetery, Los Angeles: photo by Chuck Patch (chuckp), n.d., posted November 2006It's being put about there's a secret vaultbeneath the lifetime care unitWhat got lost in the crackswhen...
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William Carlos Williams: To a Woman Seen Once
.Untitled: photo by † Jack Davison, 9 January 2012No one is lovely but you alonea green branchfallen into the seathat was jostled and broken to bereturned aftercertain years allstraightness and...
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Fernando Pessoa: On An Ankle
.Odalisque: James Pradier, 1841, marble, height 105 cm (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon) ......A sonnet bearing the imprimatur of the inspector-general and other people of distinction and decencyI had a...
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Lunch Poem
. Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley: photo by Chuck Patch (chuckp),13 September 2006That green plastic fish in the pool made by the rocks along the trail in Tildenoffered the typical post romantic...
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Thomas Hardy: The Dead Man Walking
.Ward Hill #3 (Andover, Massachusetts): photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 14 January 2014 They hail me as one living, But don't they know That I have died of late years, Untombed although?...
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