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Balancing
.Power pole, Banciao, Taiwan: photo by Aaron Aardvark is... (AntEater Theater), 18 October 2013Your cane serves as a lever that allows you to stand up on the busYou hobble a few steps down the aisle...
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Slide Show on Cave Wall
.Berlin at night: photo by NASA astronaut Kevin Ford taken from the International Space Station using ESA's NightPod camera aid, 8 December 2012 (ESA/NASA)A pulsating point on a map was all there was...
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Endarkenment
.Chinvat Bridge, Gallicanta, Montemolin, Extremadura: photo by Angel (Angel. G-), 23 July 2004It is not in the power of a human being to destroy his celestial Idea; but it is in his power to betray it,...
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Interpretation in Winter
.First Snow (Stockholm): photo by Mikael Jeney, 12 January 2014ghost ship in winter harbourbeneath a patina of snowglows eerily in grey gloomworldmyopic wondermentSt. Elmo's fire crackling around...
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You Take Manhattan
.Central Park Dam, Mishawaka, Indiana: photo by David Cory, 16 January 2014Redundant flavoursthat vanished with the snowsof Kilimanjaro -- or yesteryear, was it?There were so many, once.You take...
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Evening Train
.Evening train (Albany, California): photo by efo, 6 November 2012Train whistle in cold January nightdown by the waterlonesome sound from a long way offamid memory forestHarlem Avenue 1947or 1948late...
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Bait
.Christian Fellowship Church and Bait Shop, Vallejo, California: photo by efo, 21 January 2014Long shadows cast by distant dying sun falldownhillPeople living halfin and half out oftotal abandonmentThe...
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John Donne: A Lecture upon the Shadow
.Family Portrait, Lower Darnley, Prince Edward Island, Canada: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 24 January 2014Stand still, and I will read to thee A Lecture, Love, in loves philosophy.  These...
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Sailing in Style
.[Untitled]: photo by Joshua Perez (StrangeGoodness), 14 January 2014Progressive Kristallnacht Coming?Thomas Perkins: Letter to TheWall Street Journal, Jan. 24, 2014 4:49 p.m. ETRegarding your...
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The Birds
.Pope Francis watches children release doves at the Vatican: photo by Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters, 26 January 2014A dove which was freed by children flanked by Pope Francis during the Angelus prayer, is...
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Robert Creeley: The Warning
. Couple, Madrid: photo by Chuck Patch, 2 May 2012For love -- I would split open your head and put   a candle in behind the eyes. Love is dead in us if we forget the virtues of an amulet   and quick...
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Friedrich Hölderlin: Empedokles (Into the Volcano)
.Volcano above the city.. Etna's New Southeast Crater showing intense Strombolian activity and lava flow emission on the early morning of 30 December 2013, seen from the roof of the INGV-Osservatorio...
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One Moment
.1 moment = 1/40 sec: photo by Prof Alex O Chevtchenko, 21 March 2013OnemomentOne fortieth of a secondcloserGoat Family: photo by Prof Alex O Chevtchenko, 22 December 2013Squirrel: photo by Prof Alex O...
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Exposed
.Snow storm, Roland Park, Baltimore: photo by Chuck Patch, 27 January 2011covering overall the colourin the worldwith whiteand graybut for a littleyellow patchexposed tissuewhere a limbhas tornaway and...
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Joseph Ceravolo: Falling in the hands of the moneyseekers
.Super Bowl on Broadway: photo by Steve Pappas, 1 February 2014It's the quiet that wesuck out of the noise. The morning carries Carbon 14 a relative waste jackknifed in the middle of the universe.O...
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Wooden Boy: Bus note 88 (Aggravations of the Post Industrial Epoch)
.Metal Works, Icknield Port Road Birmingham. Another discarded lecture slide. This one dated 10/1959 is labelled Metal works Icknield Port Rd. To my mind the focus of the slide is the BCN repair depot...
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Thomas Hardy: Neutral Tones
.Suspension: photo by efo, 29 January 2014We stood by a pond that winter day, And the sun was white, as though chidden of God, And a few leaves lay on the starving sod; Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â -- They had fallen from...
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Timeless
.Le bol de lait: Pierre Bonnard, 1919; image by bodythongs, 22 September 2013 (Tate Liverpool)The fading strains of the dying refrainwarbled by the teakettle to the timeless beautywho spends her time...
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Impending: Hölderlin's Brevity
.Lenticular Cloud (altocumulus lenticularis), near Mt. Hood, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 12 January 2014Friedrich Hölderlin: Die Kürze (Brevity)"Warum bist du so kurz? liebst du, wie vormals,...
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Other
.Market, Poland, night: photo by czako_o, 27 February 2007Dark shapes bundledagainst the weatherseparate, each an otherbodyworld closedupon itselfno one looks upmasked passers-byslowlymoving, known...
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