Copper Canyon Press published Migration: New and Selected Poems 2005
He was incredibly prolific, a beautiful writer.
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A bird looks down upon its shadow self
Years from now
someone will come upon a layer of birds
and not know what he is listening for
these are the days
when the beetles hurry through dry grass
hiding pieces of light they have stolen
W. S. Merwin, Early One Summer
Ph. Yamamoto Masao
abstract/constructive. oil and graphite on painted plywood colours: blue, black, white, red, yellow, grey pencil curvatures cross within an oval in lyrical elemental geometry
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Arthur Jackson, Painting 1937
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
photograph b & w a tumble of vines leaves and a white blossom
good morning, with coffee
Hope is a passion for the possible.
Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
One from an illustrated book with sixteen etching and aquatints 5 figures stand in a row facing you, faces blank
David Hockney
Bedlam (plate 8a) A Rake's Progress, 1961–62
photograph green moss on stone- dark shapes loom, as if with wings
Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.
Haruki Murakami
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Photograph Viewing outside through two doors and a small four-paned window above
I felt a kind of vertigo, as if I were merely plunging from one world to another, and in each I arrived shortly after the end of the world had taken place.
Italo Calvino
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To Whom It May Concern:
It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
Mr. Vonnegut
Thank you, that is of importance.
Yes, muddy red it is
Joseph Beuys
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
John Cage
photograph Fragment of sunflower head
We're all golden sunflowers inside.
Allen Ginsberg
I learned a world from each / one whom I loved
Allen Ginsberg
Three paintings
Whiting Tennis, artist and musician
Ph. RuthieV Whiting in his Seattle studio
Assemblage of works on wall, drawings and paintings
assemblage , painted white, mixed wood and wire materials
Whiting Tennis, artist and musician
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Photograph night sky, lovely clouds
good night, dream on
fabulous
Photograph duck in pond, reeds and reflections
wish you a lovely day
Spring: trees flying up to their birds.
Paul Celan
Photograph b & w Peacock with full plumage
Woudster road near Oranjewoud Painting A flat scape, earth and water, on either side of a thick of trees that line a road. Two tall trees guard, the beginning and the end. We see a lone figure has entered the path.
beginning the end of the dream
Jan Mankes
what you want, with heart, matters above all
coffee and conversation
