a colour of dust

 

“Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie,

Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!”

 

~ Omar Khayyam ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a painting made in Summer 1968 by the author.

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SEVEN DEADLY SINS

 

“All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes

but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth,

poetry might never have been born.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken January 2019.

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TWO FRAGMENTS

 

“Of the seven deadly sins,

lust is definitely the pick of the litter.”

 

~ Tom Robbins ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2017.

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APOCALYPSO

 

“This is the way the world ends,

not with a bang, but a whimper.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 1999.

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LOOK BACK IN ANGER

 

“There is nothing so cruel in this world

as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”

 

~ Haruki Murakami ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in the late 1980’s.

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SEVEN DEADLY SINS

 

“All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes

but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth,

poetry might never have been born.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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

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