petals plucked

 

“Life is a stream on which we strew

petal by petal the flower of our heart.”

 

~ Amy Lowell ~

 

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

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the garlic gods

 

“One rule in life,” he murmured to himself.

“If you can smell garlic, everything is all right.”

 

~ J.G. Ballard ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Crete in October 1992.

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THE YOKE

 

“…crawling out of the medieval muck of doctrinal bondage

is the first step to secular sensibility on the road to the stars…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in St Michael’s Tower on the Glastonbury Tor in England in June 2007.

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OUR POISON SWEET

 

“…drink my lovely, drink it down…”

 

~nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2015.

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PLEUVOIR

 

 

“And then we talked of the rain, always back to the rain…”

 

~ Lou Reed ~

 

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PETALS PLUCKED

 

“I can’t feel a thing;

All mournful petal storms are dancing

inside the very private spring of my head.”

 

~ Franz Kafka ~

 

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

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CANNABIC ODE

 

“What is a weed?

A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”

 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2004.

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SITTING IN SILENCE

 

“Remember, writing poetry is like making love:

one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.”

 

~ Cesare Pavese ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a self-portrait taken in August 2012.

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WHEN TIMES WERE TIMES

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

~ Tennessee Williams ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2017.

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BACKWARDS IN HIEROGLYPHICS

 

“Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas.

Casual curses are the most effective.” 

 

~ William S. Burroughs ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020. Photo courtesy of W. Feger’s German Geological Service GmbH.

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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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PHALLUS DEI

 

“To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist, that is all.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2018.

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THE GOD OF GRAPES

 

“Swoony type,
long hair, bedroom eyes,
cheeks like wine.”

 

~ Euripides ~

 

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

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AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN

 

“The more I study religions the more I am convinced

that man never worshiped anything but himself.”

 

~ Richard Francis Burton ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Munich, Germany in June 2014.

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