street photography
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Thanksgiving Guilt
The days — likely the months — leading up to Thanksgiving 2020 have left a hazy tarnish on my ability to be present for my family and friends. It started, of course, with the economic uncertainty, political instability, and alienating nature of COVID-19. But it is bigger than that, more insidious, and ultimately more profound.…
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The Blue Cherry Blossoms on The Blue Tree
‘Cherry Blossoms at Evening’ by William Carlos Williams In the prebirth of the eveningthe blue cherry blossoms on the blue treefrom this yellow, ended room—press to the windowsinside shall be outthe clustered faces of the flowersstraining to look in Source: Williams, William C. “Cherry Blossoms at Evening.” The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Volume…
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The Song of One Hundred Thousand Chemicals Approximating Sunshine
‘This is the Song of One Hundred Thousand’ by Ariana Reines This is the song of one hundredThousand chemicals approximating Sunshine in my hair. My lover bit My cheek this morning. I think I’ll Fall from one trance into the nextMight fall asleep any minuteIt gets tiring making yourself looklike you’re alive while you’re lookingHard…
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On One Leg (House Beautiful)
prokofiev cobham & darnielle circle one’scrown blue llama equilateral wingedwhat have we hereseen? a photo in a photo in a magazinemetaphor boils the potafter a jot spills its ink hungover an fim-92 stinger whichlike i said before is no metaphorat all al gore despondent speaking to late modal fordsdon’t forget mass production the cruelest bearda…
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200! (Dog Talk)
200! the old mutt sayshallelujah and forevermorethe rats of uskeep banging on that drumif the sky has his wayif the shy sky has his wayfrank o’hara blessed meearly in my career — he blurbedmy christening i’ll pray for yousays the well intentioned divorceereally where would we be without softscrub the bathroom would be the barnno…
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Good Blue Clay
Tanka, by Ono No Oyu The city of Nara of good blue clay glows like a blooming flower, now at its prime Source: Ono No Oyu. “Tanka.” From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry, edited by Hiroaki Sato and Burton Watson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987, p. 43. Photo: Church…
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Paterson is Yours
blood-bunny lays on false facealone in encouraging corners halogen burns —it is relevant to observe— spanish communists hidden in bowling bags and electricteeth gnawing at gates of dawn soon we’ll all be frozenbelly of lake coronavirus deep unremarkable remembrance of celebritysuperstition swirling around salon breeze transfixing artificial and drunkdo i hear guitars preserving structures of…
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uh oh (kaboom)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 975 the gunpowder if it ever exists dries ready full-mouthed and mush his mission soon ends with no criteria sì, quella spiga— what athletic power passed the hum of squirrely / selfish putsch down— if darkly uplift the self gets righteous right to the bottom— quick, much is transparent and not raised…
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To Psychoanalysis
Wikipedia Poem, No. 938 after Kenneth Koch to die. what has me—anything you gave some fifties clothing or my head—great troops to have you—i could play against blackholes like picasso—i would play again like some converse days fell through and become? you look the karen horney kind all—other something screaming sobbing you gave me any…
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How to Build a Home
Wikipedia Poem, No. 408 and up everything moving always up include the stems and other woody matter build trees with composite of purified cellulose fiber woody plants a pneumatic nail is a flattener pin tack brads cleats nails lateral strength materials a pneumatic nail or clinched driver variable to cold is possible everything is heat…
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