THE TIME OF DISTANCE

 

“She went her unremembering way,
She went and left in me
The pang of all the partings gone,
And partings yet to be.”

 

~ Francis Thompson ~

 

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

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BOUTONNIÈRE

 

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining;

show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

 

~ Anton Chekhov ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in May 2007.

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FISHERMAN

 

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.”

 

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Fouras, France in June 2006.

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MUSE

 

“I had only to open my bedroom window,

and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her.”

 

~ Marc Chagall ~

 

Digital image “White And Brown” created in January 2017.

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ASHES

 

“Poetry is just the evidence of life.

If your life is burning well,

poetry is just the ash.”

 

~ Leonard Cohen ~

 

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

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THE WRITING IN THE CLOUDS

 

“Clouds come floating into my life,

no longer to carry rain or usher storm,

but to add color to my sunset sky.”

 

~ Rabindranath Tagore ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the Glauberg, Germany in August 1986.

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