Soft Parade
.Spectators, St Patrick-St Joseph-Isleno Parade, St Bernard Parish, Chalmette, Louisiana: photo by Chuck Patch, 15 April 2007Spectators, St Patrick-St Joseph-Isleno Parade, St Bernard Parish,...
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. Madonna of the Broken Glass (Lowell, Massachusetts): photo by Jim Rohan, 10 November 2010The ghostly Madonna in the thriftshop window looked down at usin compassion and with sorrow through shattered...
View ArticleWilliam Carlos Williams: By the road to the contagious hospital
.Untitled (Newark): photo by Joshua Perez (StrangeGoodness), 14 April 2014By the road to the contagious hospitalunder the surge of the bluemottled clouds driven from thenortheast -- a cold wind....
View ArticleJoseph Ceravolo: Red-tailed Hawk
.A Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) harasses a Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), Sussex County Landfill, Lafayette, New Jersey: photo by Tom Smith, 4 March 2009January 17, 1987I saw a...
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.Stillman (South of Market, San Francisco): photo by Robert Schneider, 9 March 2014It's been uphill all the wayyou can't blow your own sailbut you can still blow your own hornso long as no one's around...
View ArticleUnderstanding Landscape
.Willamette River, Oregon City, Oregon: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga (el zopilote), November 2012The cultural landscape is fashioned from a natural landscape by a cultural group. Culture is the...
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.Sierra dust storm. Taken from Owens Lake, looking west: photo by Jody Miller, 31 March 2014Every morning bright and earlyCame the man with the channelsThen one day he did not come That was the day the...
View ArticleChidiock Tichborne: The End
.Blood on the Moon (1948): photo by hytam2, 1 April 2014My prime of youth is but a froste of cares: My feaste of joy, is but a dishe of payne: My cropp of corne, is but a field of tares:And all my good...
View ArticleLos Angeles: Double Face
.Theater District, Los Angeles: photo by [DV8] David Patrick Valera, 13 April 2014Whatever else may be wrong in a political way -- like the inadequacy of the Great Depression techniques applied to a...
View ArticlePoint and Shoot
.Houston, Texas: photo by gumanow, October 2013, posted 8 April 2014A wee bit of intelligent direction --Â all realitythat hopelesslyawkwardand ungainly proposalforever spillingoverinto...
View ArticleMoving House
.Automobile landscape, Mill Valley, California: photo by Dave Glass (Dizzy Atmosphere), 1978, posted 1 April 2014We were always moving outahead of the next wave yet not riding the last wave to the...
View ArticleStevie Smith: Mother, among the Dustbins
. Play: photo by An-Sofie Kesteleyn, 13 March 2009Mother, among the dustbins and the manureI feel the measure of my humanity, an allureAs of the presence of God, I am sureIn the dustbins, in the...
View ArticleNegative Development
.Door to Hell #2: photo by Jim Rohan, 22 April 2014 Death avoidance.A game like tag.An everyday thing. Haben einen schönen Tag.Haben einen schönen Tod.Old is a kind of plague.The demented chefcould not...
View ArticleStill Lights
.call me when you get home: photo by greg (It'sGreg), 1 August 2009On the seventh dayHe rested.For eonsHe had waitedUntil the time was rightTo lureBig tech firmsInto the cleanestLittle whiteCityHe had...
View ArticleWhy Me
.Fields Landing, California: photo by Christopher Hall, 19 April 2014Why me?I asked. I hadn't ever requested that.Easter came and went.The negative thoughts passedand were replacedby fresh negative...
View ArticleWho goes there?
.Damara Dik-Dik (Madoqua kirkii, genus Madoqua), female, in Etosha National Park, Namibia: photo by Yathin S. Krishnappa, 8 February 2012A movementSomething on the aira halfmile offin the bush --an...
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. Sea Lions, East Mooring Basin, Astoria, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 27 February 2011Is it the light?Something. Escaping the enclosuresomehow, slipping underand heading off somewhereor other. How...
View ArticleLionize
.Untitled [Lion, Myself, Stockholm]: photo by Hans Söderstrom, 13 April 2014II.xi. "What is internal is hidden from us." --- The future is hidden from us. But does the astronomer think like this when...
View ArticleYoung Man Carrying Goat: Vermont Forty Years Ago
.This native of Randolph Center, Vermont, quit a Job as an auto mechanic to return to the family farm in hopes of keeping it running. In addition to Jersey cow milk, he and his mother sell goat's milk...
View ArticlePlayful
.Wild otter (Lutra lutra), Loch Eil, Scotland: photo by Sheila Rogers, 22 May 2013Very few species of animal habitually play after they are adult; they are concerned with eating, sleeping, or...
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