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Attic Mater Dolorosa

The Dark Attic — Bernhard Folkestad (1879–1933) — National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway — public domain the...

overnight

Au lit: le baiser — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) — public domain Wikimedia Commons it was only yesterday I swear when you said...

latter-day fado

The Old Guitarist — Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) The Art Institute of Chicago- public domain crippled folding chair tattered hat threadbare...

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...

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...

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...

these walls do talk

Banksy street art — photo by author, taken at a Paris exhibition, November 2022 — Banksy claims no copyright wallpapered layer after...

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...

perennial truth

Heart-shaped stone among autumn bearberry leaves — Wrangell Mountains, Alaska — photo by auhor© nothing grows my child in the greenhouse...

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...

balloons

No Ball Games — Banksy — photo by author, taken at a Paris exhibition, November 2022 — Banksy claims no copyright on his art took my...

how the world wags

Danse Macabre — John of Kastav — fresco dated 1490, Holy Trinity Church, Hrastovlje, Slovenia - public domain nothing grows without the...

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...

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...

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...

frozen river

Negotiating overflow on the Koyokuk River, Brooks Range, Alaska — March 1989 — photo by author© frozen river lets me travel on her winter...

vagrant's caesura

Travellers on the platform of Hollands Spoor, The Hague - Hans von Faber du Faur (1863-1940) - public domain sitting by the tracks the...

never the same twice

Sami on skis in norhtern lights - Frants Diderik Bøe (1820–1891) - public domain winter’s ink has spilled and spread and now is when we...

Autumn Child

Photo Piqsels.com — public domain license autumn child born naked as the season’s trees cradled in a bed of rotting leaves there’s a...

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