TRICK OF THE TONGUE

 

“The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.”

 

~ Algernon Charles Swinburne ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken of street art in Paris in June 2018.

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FOUR IN THE MORNING

 

“The past is a closed door.”

 

~ Margaret Atwood ~

 

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

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BEFORE THE DOOM

 

“Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.

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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 (from 1970 and 2020) taken in June 2020.

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PILES OF BONES

 

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in 1988.

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CARROTS AND CAKE

 

“Life, people learned, was not easy.

Life was not cake.

Life was not a carrot cake.”

 

~ Tao Lin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2020.

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TINY TINSEL STAR

 

“Popularity – a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2020.

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RAMEAUX

 

“I hear the wind among the trees playing the celestial symphonies;

I see the branches downward bent, like keys of some great instrument.”

 

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.

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BUTTE

 

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created in February 2020.

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RENDER UNTO CAESAR

 

“A lion doesn’t concern itself with the opinion of sheep.”

 

~ George R.R. Martin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2008.

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