TENDER TERPSICHORE

 

“Why was I the one who forgot what I thought I had known?

Tell me, and why am I the one who has seen Barcelona alone?”

 

~ Greg Copeland ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in France in June 2006.

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CATMADNESS

 

Back in the 1970’s, when I was living and working in Virginia,

a friend came to work one morning and told me a story

about his cat, his girlfriend and a squeaky brass bed.

The cat kept thinking that he was hearing a mouse

and would come into the bedroom to investigate.

His story inspired this poem.

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Sherlocke, my incredible cat, taken in November 1974.

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OUT THERE

“We long to return to normal, but normal led to this…”

~ Ed Yong ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2021.

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DARK CORNERS

 

“The bright dawn flooded the room,

and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners,

where they lay shuddering.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2020.

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PIÈCE DE RÉSISTANCE

 

“Existence is a series of footnotes

to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2020.

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NO FINER MAGIC

 

“Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.”

 

~ Standing Bear ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Glauberg, Germany in July 1986.

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OPEN OR CLOSED THEY STAYED

 

“The universe is transformation, life is opinion.”

 

~ Marcus Aurelius ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2019.

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