CURLED IN THE AFTERGLOW

 

“I like my afterglow with you in motion.

I measure time by how your body sways.”

 

~ Jennifer Crusie ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of “aux bras levés,” (1890), a painting by Marie Laprade, taken in Paris in June 2019.

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CARNET EROTIC, PAGE ELEVEN

 

“The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.”

 

~ Jean Cocteau ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of an actual page of Jean Cocteau’s Carnet Erotic, (page eleven), taken in Paris in June 2019.

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FADE

 

“Life has to be given a meaning

because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

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

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A CHILD’S MIND IS LIKE CLAY

 

“To learn to read is to light a fire.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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

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THE WINDOW

 

“Dying is an art, like everything else.”

 

~ Sylvia Plath ~

 

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

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PHASES AND SHADOWS

 

“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,

don’t make the wheel start up again,

then is now and now is then,

it’s the same thing…”

 

~ John Greaves ~

 

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

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SHADOWMAN

 

“A circle is the reflection of eternity.

It has no beginning and it has no end.”

 

~ Maynard James Keenan ~

 

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

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LARMES DE BLEU

 

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

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

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COBWEB STRANGE

 

“And alien tears will fill for him

pity’s long broken urn,

for his mourners will be outcast men,

and outcasts always mourn.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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

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BARGAIN DAY

 

“Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little

but needs that little so much.”

 

~ Margaret Willour ~

 

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

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