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People Still Care
.Woman in couch, Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 23 January 2014Life must be seen before it can be known but we are as the blind, before our lit-up screens, where then are our probing-sticks, to tap...
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Hazen Robert Walker: "the rain comes down..."
.16th and Wood, West Oakland: photo by Dave Glass (Dizzy Atmosphere), 19 October 2009the rain comes down first in color, then in black and white,just as it should. and note carefully,how the...
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Bridge Broke Down
. Young ladies dressed for a day of sport crossing a log over a creek, Canunga, Queensland: photo by George Jackman, n.d. (State Library of Queensland)London Bridge is broken down,Broken down, broken...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Happy World
.Untitled (Newark): photo by Joshua Perez (StrangeGoodness), 1 February 201414.7.16. Man cannot make himself happy without more ado. Whoever lives in the present lives without fear and hope. Chinatown...
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Subjective City Valentine
.Girl (Chongqing): photo by wang yuanling, 8 December 2010Face (Chongqing): photo by wang yuanling, 29 April 2012No. 302: photo by wang yuanling, 12 April 2011 The subjective city -- No. 15. Man...
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Down by the River
.Habitats No. 4 (Yangtze River): photo by wang yuanling, 13 June 2011After Wang WeiChilling down by the waterstopped to watch clouds driftclouds drift clouds driftbumped into mr. greentalked laughed...
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Under the Plum Tree
.Branch of Flowering White Jasmine: attributed to Zao Chang, early 12th century, album leaf painting, ink and color on silk, 24.9 × 27.1 cm (Shanghai Museum)It’s a pity we have to sufferThe bluejay...
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Vladimir Mayakovsky: The Brooklyn Bridge at the End of the World
. Brooklyn Bridge #1 (New York City, New York): photo by Jim Rohan, 15 February 2014 If ever.......the end of the world..............should arrive,and chaos.......sweep off............. the planet's...
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Walt Whitman: Baffled at the Shore
.To Fall or Run (Lower Darnley, Prince Edward Island): photo by Jim Rohan, 29 September 2012O baffled, balk’d, bent to the very earth, Oppress’d with myself that I have dared to open my mouth,Aware now...
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César Vallejo: Trilce LVIII
.House where the poet César Vallejo was born, Santiago de Chuco, Perú: photo by Carlos Adampol Galindo, 19 January 2008 In the cell, in the solid, even the corners huddle up. I set to rights The...
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Richard Brautigan: Lonely at the Laundromat
. Laundry day. What's he looking for? (Albany, California): photo by efo, 18 October 2006This poem was found written on a paper bag by Richard Brautigan in a laundromat in San Francisco. The author is...
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Henry David Thoreau: Close to Earth
. Nelson Island #24 (Rowley, Massachusetts): photo by Jim Rohan, 9 February 2014The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood the...
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Stevie Smith: Dear Child of God
. Bucket Boy (found photo). Found in Amsterdam, December 2013: image by robert schneider (rolopix), posted 2014Dear child of GodWith the tears on your faceAnd your hands clasped in angerWhat is the...
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Curzio Malaparte: Into the Ukraine
.Abandoned Soviet T-34 tank, Ukraine: photographer unknown, 1942 (Deutsches Bundesarchiv / German Federal Archive) Meanwhile the sun was coming up from the horizon of green, and gradually the hoarse...
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Robert Desnos: I Am a Shadow
.3323: photo by Petros Kotzabasis (pkomo), 24 December 2012 The Last PoemI’ve dreamed so much of youWalked so muchTalked so much made love to your shadowSo much that there’s nothing left of youWhat is...
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Pierre Reverdy: Slippage
.A piece of slate: photo by Jon Zander, 2007On each slate..............that slipped from the roof....................someone ..................had written ..............................a poemThe...
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Hidden Villa
.Untitled: photo by Adrian Tsim, 3 January 2014fallen down hutchdry rot.........broken step leaf mulch................detrituslitter village.....tangled....under woods.........let...
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Storm Light, from Ocean View
.Storm Light, Oregon coast: photo by Austin Granger, 25 October 2012The big storm looms off shore in black ecstatic lightPreparing us for the violence of landfallThe old weird light of the North...
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Nice Surprise
.Untitled: photographer unknown, n.d: posted by _elinor, 14 February 2014There toward the end of that last millennium, with only about sixty more years to go, when things were finally beginning to...
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Mother, can you find me?
.The old Tatar in Bakhchisaray (Crimea), Yakub, as many of the Crimean Tatars, was deported in 1944 by the Soviet government to the Urals, where he was forced to work as a lumberjack. This work, in...
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