dark nuances dance

 

“It is always a poet’s winter.”

 

~ Kate Braverman ~

 

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

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aftertaste

 

“A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives

   a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.”

 

~ David Mitchell ~

 

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

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evening’s shadows

 

“The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.”

 

~ Gregory Maguire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

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the demons are delighted

 

“He who is neither human nor demon

is not the dawn nor the dusk.”

 

~ Kohta Hirano ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2017.

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prophecy

 

“We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.”

 

~ Charles Lamb ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of fifty years of hair growth (from 1970 and 2020) taken in June 2020.

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jesse / plain jane

 

“Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.”

 

~ Robert Fripp ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2019.

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shroomagic

 

“…And you, whose pastime is to make midnight mushrooms…”

 

~ Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2004.

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slowly sinking into night

 

“We are made of starstuff.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in September 1980.

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LEGACY

 

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees,

under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

 

~ Nelson Henderson ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2016.

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NO ONE LISTENING

 

“It is the disease of not listening that I am troubled with.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 1980.

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NO REGRETS

 

“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2016.

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VORTEX

 

“The Image is more than an idea.

It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas

and is endowed with energy.”

 

~ Ezra Pound ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a fossilized mollusk from the author’s collection taken in October 2015.

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JUST A FROWN

 

“O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat,

let me be feverish and frowning.”

 

~ Anne Sexton ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1976.

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CANNABIC ODE

 

“What is a weed?

A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”

 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2004.

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DAUGHTER OF THE MOON

 

“O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,

that monthly changes in her circled orb,

lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2011.

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ONE LONG LAST LOOK

 

“I had said goodbye to her once before, but it took everything

I had to say goodbye to her then, again, for the last time,

like poor Orpheus turning for a last backward glance at the ghost

of his only love and in the same heartbeat losing her forever:

hinc illae lacrimae, hence those tears.”

 

~ Donna Tartt ~

 

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

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I LOOKED UP

 

“Oblivion carries me on his shoulder…”

 

~ Tim Buckley ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2015.

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HORSEHEAD RHYTHMS

 

“The color of truth is gray.”

 

~ Andre Gide ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2015.

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FROM THE ASHES

 

“In order to rise from its own ashes a phoenix first must burn.”

 

~ Octavia Butler ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2019.

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PHOENIX

 

“In order to rise from its own ashes a phoenix first must burn.”

 

~ Octavia Butler ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a Polaroid photo taken in the mid 1970’s.

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