.
Motel, Florence, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 25 October 2013
While everything external
dies away in the far off
echo of the soul
still there’s a mill wheel turning
it is like a good
kind of tiredness in
the moment before sleep
by some distant stream
a note of peace
in a life which
will never be peaceful
as the daylight fades
dies away in the far off
echo of the soul
still there’s a mill wheel turning
it is like a good
kind of tiredness in
the moment before sleep
by some distant stream
a note of peace
in a life which
will never be peaceful
as the daylight fades
the dream disintegrates
but the shadow holds
no power
over what’s about to happen
but the shadow holds
no power
over what’s about to happen
Untitled: photo by Robert Adams, c. 1981, from Summer Nights, Walking: On the Colorado Front, 1976-82 (2009)
Aurora: photo by Robert Adams, 1979, from Summer Nights, Walking: On the Colorado Front, 1976-82 (2009)
Sunset Mausoleum at sunset (El Cerrito, California): photo by efo, 28 November 2005
Barber and Coin, Guns and Ammo, Beaverton, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 5 February 2014
exit: one crow tree / none crow tree (Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio): photo by wood_owl, 23 January 2014
Speaker, Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 5 February 2014
star lofts and fireplug, downtown kansas city: photo by Clayton Percy, 26 January 2014
Alpha Omega (Webster, Oakland): photo by efo, 18 September 2010
Guardian (South Egremont, Massachusetts): photo by efo, 22 August 2010
The Last Supper, Rhyolite, Death Valley: photo by Austin Granger, 25 February 2011
The Last Supper, Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 10 January 2013
Corner, Florence, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 20 October 2013
Central High School Fire, York, Nebraska. Onlookers and window outlines in silhouette: photo by Johnson, 13 February 1917; image by yorklib (Kilgore Memorial Library, York, Nebraska), 7 March 2012
water tower over tennis court: photo by Clayton Percy, 7 March 2014
base of the tower, no parking. a quieter view true to the nature of the place: photo by Clayton Percy, 7 March 2014
Factory, River des Peres, Dogtown (St. Louis): photo by chalkdog, 1 September 2013
Factory, Dogtown (St. Louis): photo by chalkdog, 7 September 2013
Utility poles in moonlight, Dogtown (St. Louis): photo by chalkdog, 18 September 2013
Night on the fringes of Dogtown (St. Louis): photo by chalkdog, 1 September 2013
shinjuku, tokyo: photo by wire_paladinSF, 10 April 2014
Denver, Colorado: photo by Robert Adams,1973, from Denver: A Photographic Survey of the Metropolitan Area, 1970-1974 (1977)
These last elections give anybody else an eerie sense of a dark wing passing over?
ReplyDelete"You can feel it out in traffic / Everyone hates everyone."
Joni Mitchell: Sex Kills (Live on BBC Late Night, 1994)
hopeful despite ...I love this piece!
ReplyDeleteHard darkness over the land. Eerie but what we deserve after so many lies - and hard to imagine what deeper darkness to come. Thanks for the photos and the poem - a little light.
ReplyDeleteRalph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys: The Darkest Hour
ReplyDelete(But as Hilton wonders, how do we know there aren't some even darker ones lined up, out there in those black spaces past the Comet?)
Tom,
ReplyDeleteWell you guessed it, and perhaps here, we blew the whistle. But that is okay I guess.