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Imaging (The White Horse)
.Untitled (Hampden, Baltimore): photo by Patrick Joust, August 2013The white horse parked in your ghost corral is going nowhere, soldier. And from the front line, the imagingcenter, the fear factory,...
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Wrapped in cellophane and isolated from everything great
.Winchester Bay, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 24 October 2013It is very remarkable that we should be inclined to think of civilization -- houses, trees, cars, etc. -- as separating man from his...
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Ron Padgett: Sleep Alarm
.Muster Station 7, Inside Passage, Alaska. 10:46: photo by Austin Granger, 9 July 2013 Just as some guyis proposing toSuzanne Pleshette in a cough syrup commercial,I realizeI've dozed back off and...
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Sanctuary
.Iglesia de Dios (Israelita) (Oakland): photo by efo, 31 July 2012Though I'm really an agnostic, I see these churches as some of the last holdouts of individualism and belief in a culture dominated by...
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Emotional
. Woman mourning, Brentwood Street, Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 3 April 2012Emotionaldistance between viewer and screen growingever greater, the coldnessof the spaceintervening ever deeper,the...
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Suspension
.Untitled: photo by James Wainwright, 12 July 2010Big soft white nearlyfull moonwith pouty cheekrising abovecold November dreamUntitled: photo by James Wainwright, 10 June 2010
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State of Emergency
.taghoot: photo by Joshua Perez (StrangeGoodness), 25 May 2013as if the colored bulbsstrung uponlast year's discardedChristmas treelit up miraculously in the city dump in black and white and shades of...
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Blank (Don't be late)
. Grief and consolation (The Netherlands): photo by Akbar Simonse, 25 April 2013A generationmesmerized bysmall screenswill always haveits own imageto remember itselfbyA moment to remember (The...
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skyfalling
. Gale (Lower Darnley, Prince Edward Island, Canada): photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 16 December 2011wild skyfalling night tail of first big storm front of the season slashing through last loose...
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Wislawa Szymborska: Discovery
.Lesser short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus brachyotis), newborn (captured within 12 hours of birth): photo by Anton Croos, 20 September 2013 I believe in the great discovery. I believe in the man who...
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Requiem for a Wood-Sprite
.Untitled: photo by Karena Goldfinch, 21 March 2013"...the happiness, the echoing, endless, irreplaceable happiness..."from Vladimir Nabokov: The Wood-Sprite (1921)Marsupial in her palm. Carerwith...
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Fear
.El rejoneador Rodrigo Santos recoge un clavel. Villa de Álvarez, Colima, México: photo by Emigdio Salgado (Millo Salgado), 27 April 2009 Not that being one of themever softened the...
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Sacrificial Rite
. White House ceremony to receive the 40th annual Thanksgiving Turkey: photographer unknown, 23 November 1987; image 17 October 2012 (Ronald Reagan Library/US National Archives)The anthems of thanks...
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Beer: street wisdom (a story about the Pilgrims)
.One Stop Darker (Berkeley): photo by efo, 9 November 2013Hey man, have you ever wondered why you were not told in school that the Pilgrims invented beer in order to drive the Indians crazy?Beer (Beer...
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Lacuna
.Arnett YMCA: autochrome photo by Charles C. Zoller (1854-1934), between 1907 and 1932 (George Eastman House).. .He stopped going outStopping in was the final mistake,..The stairs too steepRetreated to...
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Peerage
.Mucem reflection (Marseille): photo by Yannis Bautrait (yaya13baut), 20 August 2013To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:A time to be born, and a time to die;...
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Red Shuttleworth: from Dog Heart Sleeps Mostly in the Pickup
.borderlands: photo by Mary Donato (gneissgirl), 16 November 2013Pass the Wild Turkey.Everyone got unspent excuses.Now it's Wagontire, Oregon,population seven...bitter stock waterfor a bath out backof...
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Diminishing Perspective
.Dress for Less: photo by efo, 31 March 2013Everything that once seemed nearnow seems far away. On the 18, Carloswith bandaged handpolitely tucks his 12 ouncecan into the black plastic bagwhich he...
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In Wonderland
.No Wake (Port Sanilac, Michigan): photo by David Cory, 21 September 2013 Me oldNo wakeTime comingEmpty signAlternate routeRapture trap Hide my eyesInWonderlandThere Was a Time... (Time Oldsmobile,...
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Area Under Surveillance
.84820021: photo by David Thomas (DavidTAndersonPhotography), 28 August 2013Six months now since the accident-al discovery we're being monitoredevery minute by blind robot clowns so... safer? Are we...
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