LINES FOR A LOVER NOT NEXT TO ME

 

“Absence – that common cure of love.”

 

~ Lord Byron ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2017.

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DISAPPEARING INTO THE DARKNESS

 

“I’ll search and I’ll find her again

even if I have to swim in my own tears.”

 

~ A.P. Sweet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2008.

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VENUS EXPOSED

 

“Venus smiles not in a house of tears.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original scanned 35mm slide taken in late 1998. From the author’s private archives.

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FACE IN THE WALL

 

“The countenance is the portrait of the soul,

and the eyes mark its intentions.”

 

~ Cicero ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

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A GRAVITY OF LANGUAGE

 

“Words, too, have genuine substance –

mass and weight and specific gravity.”

 

~ Tim O’Brien ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

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