SECOND CHANCE

 

“You know, I ain’t afraid of dyin’ but there’s one thing I can’t forget,

ain’t no one who’s gone over there, come back to talk to me about it yet…”

 

~ Memphis Slim ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Autumn 1990.

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GRACE MY TABLE

 

“Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story

of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2007.

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FRAGILITY

 

“nothing which we are to perceive in this world

equals the power of your intense fragility.”

 

~ e. e. cummings ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo, taken in April 2020, of thin 2000 year old pieces of birch bark that were preserved in a layer of sand, mud and loam below the level of the ground water table.

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PLAGUE DAYS

 

“We can’t stir a finger in this world

without the risk of bringing death to somebody.”

 

~ Albert Camus ~

 

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

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MAGPIE

 

“One for sorrow, two for mirth,

three for a wedding, four for a birth,

five for silver, six for gold,

seven for a secret that’s never been told…”

 

~ Traditional English Rhyme ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Orléans, France in April 2017.

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