this day that wasn’t

 

“Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.”

 

~ Suzanne Collins ~

 

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nascent

 

 

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say,

but what we are unable to say.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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life’s blood

 

“…that poetic anarchy which has been the fundamental viewpoint

of creative people since the world began.”

 

~ Alison Prince ~

 

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page three

 

“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.”

 

~ James Thurber ~

 

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FLIGHTS OF FANCY

 

“Some might think that the creativity, imagination,

and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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I LOOKED UP

 

“Oblivion carries me on his shoulder…”

 

~ Tim Buckley ~

 

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INTO RAGE

 

“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement

inside our own skins, for life.”

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

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THIS DAY THAT WASN’T

 

“Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.”

 

~ Suzanne Collins ~

 

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ELLE DANSE AVEC DES MOTS

 

“I will have my serpent’s tongue –

my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice.

I will overcome the tradition of silence.”

 

~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa ~

 

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UNWRAPS THE COBWEBS

 

“Only the united beat of sex and the heart can create ecstasy.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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PAGE THREE

 

“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.”

 

~ James Thurber ~

 

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NASCENT

 

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say,

but what we are unable to say.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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FLIGHTS OF FANCY

 

“Some might think that the creativity,

imagination, and flights of fancy

that give my life meaning are insanity.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2010.

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