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Robert Walser / Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Woman with Feathered Tuft
. Berlin Street Scene: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), 1913-14, oil on canvas, 121 x 95 cm (Neue Galerie, New York) Not that I intend this to have a political sense,no not at all, biography of...
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Thomas Hood: Sonnet to Vauxhall
.Costume from the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. A section of the Museum of London re-creating the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens (before they slipped into disrepute): photo by B (falling_angel), 11 March 2011...
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Clarice Lispector: Mine of Mirrors
.Close-up of foam on the surface of a tide pool, Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, California. When plankton crushes ashore, it dies and disintegrates creating foam-like bubbles, which are left on the floor...
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Wooden Boy: Bus note 63
.The Bearwood High Street at the junction of St Marys Road: photo by Mark McQuilty (Tingy), 28 October 2005 Top deck side lights:a seizure trigger;neon spectral shimmer; false...
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Wallace Stevens: Night's Hymn of the Rock
. Dome of the Rock (Arabic: مسجد قبة الصخرة, Hebrew: כיפת הסלע), on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem: NE facade, panel detail with ceramic tiles. The tiles were added as part of the...
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Wallace Stevens: An Argentine Abstraction
.Another glance at heaven. A vault at the Nasr al Molk mosque at Shiraz: photo by dynamomosquito, 21 April 2008Last Friday, in the big light of last Friday night,We drove home from Cornwall to...
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Dorothy Day: True Security
.Dorothy Day: photographer unknown, 1934 (New York World Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress)The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you...
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Robert Burns: To a Mouse
.Jeemy the moose, Scotland. This wee mouse was nearly tinker's tea. He was sitting a few inches below the cat and was frozen in fear!: photo by Louise Grant (Looby lou), 28 December 2006 (National...
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Blindness
.Grau (Grey): Gerhard Richter, 1974, oil on canvas, 250 x 195 cm (Gerhard Richter Art)If you stand before a blank walland open your eyes as wide as you can you will see nothing. Believing the liesis...
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Joseph Ceravolo: Eternity
.Imam (formerly Shah) Mosque (Masjed-e Imam), Isfahan: photo by Dara Mulhern, 18 October 2010 When I was a childI thought a handgun in a holsterand the lead colored bullets on the beltwas one of the...
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Philip Larkin: High Windows
.Waiting Room for the Beyond: John Register, 1988 (Modernism Gallery, San Francisco)When I see a couple of kids And guess he’s fucking her and she’s Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm, I know this...
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"But how far do I have to go?"
.Street scene, Truth or Consequences, New Mexico: photo by Laura Hertzfeld, 18 March 2009"But how far do I have to go?" He shook his head and pushed me out the door With eyes as blue as the skyAnd as...
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Clouds
.Cloud: Gerhard Richter, 1976, oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm (Gerhard Richter Art)It is a very beautiful day. The woman looks around and thinks: “there cannot ever have been a spring more beautiful than...
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Tom Clark: Truth Game at BlazeVOX
. Truth Game The words having given up on them,not the words but the meaningshiding behind the treesat the side of the road,the people said"We can't find the words"The people sounded like lost children...
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Reflection
.Marta (Szumin, Masovian, Poland): photo by Dorota Marta (Sex Crime 1984), 2 February 2013 The surface of the pond remembers Ripples of your reflection, rotting leaves;In the stagnant past, Your future...
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Wislawa Szymborska: Under One Small Star
.Untitled (Scotland): photo by Dorota Marta (Sex Crime 1984), 7 August 2013My apologies to chance for calling it necessity.My apologies to necessity if I'm mistaken, after all.Please, don't be angry,...
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Wislawa Szymborska: Bruegel's Two Monkeys
. Two Monkeys (Zwei Aften): Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1562, oil on oak panel, 23 x 20 cm (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)This is what I see in my dreams about final exams: two monkeys, chained to the floor,...
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Wislawa Szymborska: Nothing's a Gift
.A highly corroded lead sinker found at the beach: photo by Chemicalinterest, 24 November 2010Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan. I'm drowning in debts up to my ears. I'll have to pay for myself with...
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Wooden Boy: Bus note 66
.Henleys, chav chic! You have to picture the scene. The guy in the center was drunk. Can of Stella in his back pocket and proud owner of a Henleys t-shirt. Top chav chic(Birmingham UK): photo by Martin...
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Lewis W. Hine: Scott's Run, West Virginia, March 1937
.Scott's Run, West Virginia. Peter Percupu, Roumanian miner, unemployed, known in Scott's Run as Ground Hog. Too old to find employment in the mines, March 1937The past speaks to usIt says hello glad...
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