Hiking With Ghosts
Bonanza Mine, Kennecott, Alaska — © J.L. Dupont Every mountain trail carries its history, both good and bad. Histories of success and...
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Sep 221 min
blackguard
Danse Macabre - Chapelle Notre-Dame de Rocamadour - © J.L. Dupont watch the bony blackguard come with open visor or in stealth slow for...
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Jan 251 min
waltzing calliope organs
The Merry-Go-Round (linoleum cut) — Cyril Power (1872–1951) — public domain as we haste towards the sound of waltzing calliope organs and...
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Jan 211 min
today, I know
“At Eternity’s Gate” — Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) — public domain today, I know this rising fog will only thicken to cloak my words...
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Nov 26, 20232 min
Attic Mater Dolorosa
The Dark Attic — Bernhard Folkestad (1879–1933) — National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway — public domain the...
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Sep 1, 20231 min
overnight
Au lit: le baiser — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) — public domain Wikimedia Commons it was only yesterday I swear when you said...
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Jul 25, 20231 min
latter-day fado
The Old Guitarist — Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) The Art Institute of Chicago- public domain crippled folding chair tattered hat threadbare...
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Jun 18, 20231 min
the jester's courage
Laughing Fool (c. 1500–20) — Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (attrib.) (1470–1533) public domain Wiki Commons I was a jester once but never...
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May 21, 20231 min
heartfelt skinned
World map in the shape of a heart — Paris, 1536 — Oronce Finé (1494–1555) — public domain have a heart the saying goes but heartfelt...
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Apr 23, 20231 min
name me one
Banksy street art — photo by author, taken at a Paris exhibition, November 2022 — Banksy claims no copyright name me one one nation that...
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Mar 23, 20231 min
these walls do talk
Banksy street art — photo by author, taken at a Paris exhibition, November 2022 — Banksy claims no copyright wallpapered layer after...
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Feb 23, 20231 min
chair’s lament
Photo by Christophe Dion on Unsplash when you feel you have gathered too much dust have a seat and for once forget that I’m rickety and...
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Feb 15, 20231 min
perennial truth
Heart-shaped stone among autumn bearberry leaves — Wrangell Mountains, Alaska — photo by auhor© nothing grows my child in the greenhouse...
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Feb 15, 20233 min
Streets of Brass
Stolperstein - Ghent, Belgium - photo by author This morning, I asked my wife where she’d parked the car last night. ‘Oh, right around...
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Jan 26, 20231 min
balloons
No Ball Games — Banksy — photo by author, taken at a Paris exhibition, November 2022 — Banksy claims no copyright on his art took my...
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Jan 14, 20231 min
how the world wags
Danse Macabre — John of Kastav — fresco dated 1490, Holy Trinity Church, Hrastovlje, Slovenia - public domain nothing grows without the...
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Jan 7, 20231 min
an orphan of the word
to turn a single page into a universe you must be woman man and child outside age without race wild and free spurning time blasting space...
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Jan 3, 20231 min
the tightropes of our dreams
Seiltänzerin — August Macke (1887–1914) — public domain balancing on the tightropes of our dreams we perform our precarious advance side...
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Dec 24, 20221 min
little gods of little words
A Girl Writing; The Pet Goldfinch — Browne, Henriette (1829–1901) -public domain we little gods of little words we think we write for...
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Dec 19, 20221 min
frozen river
Negotiating overflow on the Koyokuk River, Brooks Range, Alaska — March 1989 — photo by author© frozen river lets me travel on her winter...
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