one way street

 

“It’s such a strange time that we’re passing through,

I thought you’d tell me when your time was due,

I guess you thought I knew…”

 

~ Leon Russell

 

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i dream

 

“There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistence.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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the silence descends

 

“Everything has a secret soul,

which is silent more often than it speaks.”

 

~ Wassily Kandinsky ~

 

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pièce de résistance

 

“Existence is a series of footnotes to a

     vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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gramophone

 

“As life runs on, the road grows strange

with faces new – and near the end 

the milestones into headstones change,

neath every one a friend.”

 

~ James Russell Lowell ~

 

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i watched

 

“Men look at themselves in mirrors.

Women look for themselves.”

 

~ Elissa Melamed ~

 

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ONE WAY STREET

 

“Well it’s such a strange world that I’m living in,

she was my woman and she was my friend,

but I was wrong again…”

 

~ Leon Russell ~

 

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THE SILENCE DESCENDS

 

“Everything has a secret soul,

which is silent more often than it speaks.”

 

~ Wassily Kandinsky ~

 

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PIÈCE DE RÉSISTANCE

 

“Existence is a series of footnotes

to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov

 

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I WATCHED

 

“Men look at themselves in mirrors.

Women look for themselves.”

 

~ Elissa Melamed ~

 

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A BASKET OF PLENTY

 

“Where ignorance is bliss,

‘Tis folly to be wise.”

 

~ Thomas Gray ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Roman wall painting in Herculaneum taken there in August 1996.

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THE WALL I BUILT

 

“Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it,

old age is still old age.”

 

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~

 

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AFRAID OF DEATH

 

“Dying is an art, like everything else.”

 

~ Sylvia Plath ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2017.

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