film noir

 

“It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.”

 

~ Raymond Chandler ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2022.

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DAWN MADNESS

 

“The road is life.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Summer 1977.

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BEWARE ULYSSES, BEWARE

 

“Is it the singer or the song…?”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Mediterranean between Crete and Santorini in October 1992.

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THE HUMAN GARDEN

 

“I have no regrets,

I only think that I should have

   liberally applied the weed killer more often…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2010.

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OF HER MONSTERS AND MADNESS

 

“When love is not madness, it is not love.”

 

~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a Polaroid negative taken in 1968.

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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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OVERKILL

 

“Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.”

 

~ Albert Collins ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

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SAFE HARBOUR

 

“When traversing the vast sea of loneliness,

Oneness is the only true safe harbor.”

 

~ Gary Hopkins ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2019.

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THE FIRST ACT IN THE TRAGEDY OF TOUCH

 

“Touch has a memory.”

 

~ John Keats ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail) of a restored Roman mosaic taken in June 2004.

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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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LA DOULEUR

 

“Guns don’t kill people. They just make it easier.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Jean Escoula’s sculpture La Douleur  in the Musée d’Orsay taken in Paris in June 2019.

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LATE

 

“Yes, that’s it!

Said the Hatter with a sigh,

it’s always tea time.”

 

~ Lewis Carroll ~

 

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

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BLISSFULLY BONKERS

 

“I don’t think…” said Alice.

“Then you shouldn’t talk,” said the Hatter.

 

~ Lewis Carroll ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2009.

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