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Monday 23 May 2016

Lets have ice cream at the junkyard / Wallace Stevens: Madame La Fleurie

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The axe murderer next door | by michaelj1998

The axe murderer next door [Shooting Newton District, Los Angeles, California]: photo by michaelj1998, 13 May 2016

Lets have ice cream at the junkyard
Lets go for a ride on one of those ponies
Lets go look at the house where the axe murderer lived
Lets just stand in the doorway and like not go in that room
Lets sneak up back of Home Depot and see if there's any free stuff
Lets go for a ride on another one of those ponies
Summers like my favorite time of year 


Pick your poison | by michaelj1998

pick your poison [Los Angeles, California]: photo by michaelj1998, 11 May 2016

The axe murderer next door | by michaelj1998

The axe murderer next door [Shooting Newton District, Los Angeles, California]: photo by michaelj1998, 13 May 2016

Front Porch | by macromary

Front Porch [Lake Harbor, Florida]: photo by Mary, 5 December 2015

Plus 8 Acres | by macromary
 
Plus 8 Acres [Lake Harbor, Florida]. 2 beds/2 baths + 8 acres. Appraised value $35,000. And it's been for sale for years.: photo by Mary, 7 December 2015

Blowing in the Wind | by macromary

Blowing in the Wind [Lake Harbor, Florida]: photo by Mary, 8 December 2015

Dollhouse | by efo

Dollhouse [Emeryville, California]: photo by efo, 2016

Portland | by austin granger

Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 27 April 2016

Portland | by austin granger

Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 27 April 2016

Sentinels | by macromary

Sentinels. Black vultures stand guard over the Moore Haven Lock and Dam, a water control structure for the Herbert Hoover Dike.: photo by Mary, 24 November 2015

Speakeasy | by macromary

Dirty Work | by macromary

Dirty Work. Abandoned migrant worker dormitory. [Moore Haven, Florida] "Whether they wash their clothes on any given day has to do with how tired they are when they return from the fields. If they haven't got the energy to wash them they hang their clothes anyway on the line to dry. This disheartens the camp generally because of the smell and because it causes cutters to live constantly among the dirt of the fields. It gets into their beds and their hair and their stores of food."  -- Alec Wilkinson: BIG SUGAR -- Seasons in the Cane Fields of Florida: photo by Mary, 3 January 2016

Caneworker Dormitory | by macromary

 Caneworker Dormitory. [Moore Haven, Florida] "The cutters live in camps maintained by the growers... Some are surrounded by chain-link fences, a number have checkpoints and are off limits to outsiders." -- Alec Wilkinson: BIG SUGAR -- Seasons in the Cane Fields of Florida: photo by Mary, 3 November 2015

Layers Upon Layers | by macromary

Layers Upon Layers [Moore Haven, Florida] : photo by Mary, 24 January 2016

Broken Dreams | by macromary
  
Broken Dreams. Abandoned migrant worker dormitory. [Moore Haven, Florida] "... more than one in every three cuts himself or is cut by someone who has lost control of his knife, or wrenches his back, or suffers an attack of some kind in the heat, or steps in a rabbit hole and turns an ankle, or is bitten by fire ants, or pierces his eye or his eardrum with a sharp leaf while bending over and grabbing a stalk..."  -- Alec Wilkinson: BIG SUGAR -- Seasons in the Cane Fields of Florida: photo by Mary, 4 January 2016

Lets have ice cream at the junkyard | by michaelj1998

Lets have ice cream at the junkyard [Los Angeles, California]: photo by michaelj1998, 13 May 2016

Lets have ice cream at the junkyard | by michaelj1998

Lets have ice cream at the junkyard [Los Angeles, California]: photo by michaelj1998, 13 May 2016

Lets have ice cream at the junkyard | by michaelj1998

Lets have ice cream at the junkyard [Los Angeles, California]: photo by michaelj1998, 13 May 2016

Pick your poison | by michaelj1998

pick your poison [Los Angeles, California]: photo by michaelj1998, 11 May 2016

The axe murderer next door | by michaelj1998

The axe murderer next door [Shooting Newton District, Los Angeles, California]: photo by michaelj1998, 13 May 2016


Wallace Stevens: Madame La Fleurie


Tokyo Aquarium | by michaelj1998

Tokyo Aquarium [Los Angeles, California]: photo by michaelj1998, 20 May 2016


Illustrated Wallace Stevens: Madame la Fleurie: James Romberger via The Hooded Utilitarian, 28 July 2011
 
Weight him down, O side-stars, with the great weightings of the end.
Seal him there. He looked in a glass of the earth and thought he lived in it.
Now, he brings all that he saw into the earth, to the waiting parent.
His crisp knowledge is devoured by her, beneath a dew.

Weight him, weight, weight him with the sleepiness of the moon.
It was only a glass because he looked in it. It was nothing he could be told.
It was a language he spoke, because he must, yet did not know.
It was a page he had found in the handbook of heartbreak.

The black fugatos are strumming the blacknesses of black . . .
The thick strings stutter the finial gutturals.
He does not lie there remembering the blue-jay, say the jay.
His grief is that his mother should feed on him, himself and what he saw,
In that distant chamber, a bearded queen, wicked in her dead light.

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955): Madame La Fleurie, 1951, from The Rock (1954)


#Newark #NJ #black #blurry #grainy #streetphotography | by StrangeGoodness

 [Untitled, Newark]: photo by J Perez, 29 December 2015

2015-12-12_02-41-10 | by StrangeGoodness

 [Untitled, Newark]: photo by J Perez, 24 November 2015

Mickey Mouse wants revenge | by blazedelacroix

Mickey Mouse wants revenge [Sweden]: photo by Blaise De la Croix, 1 May 2016

Untitled | by catlucia

[Graffiti, San Francisco]: photo by Catherine Sparacino, 27 December 2016

Untitled | by catlucia

[Untitled, Outer Sunset, San Francisco]: photo by Catherine Sparacino, 7 December 2015

Out for an early evening read | by philipgreene

Out for an early morning read [Guilford, Connecticut]: photo by Philip Greene, 18 May 2016

This_Love. | by deaMax

This_Love
: photo by dea Max, 19 May 2016

 
Cohen Furniture, Peoria Warehouse District | by silverygelatin

Cohen Furniture, Peoria Warehouse District [Peoria, Illinois]: photo by Brian Rowe, 10 March 2015

Cohen Furniture, Peoria Warehouse District | by silverygelatin

Cohen Furniture, Peoria Warehouse District [Peoria, Illinois]: photo by Brian Rowe, 10 March 2015

Closed for Business | by silverygelatin

Closed for Business [Peoria, Illinois]: photo by Brian Rowe, 16 February 2016

Closed for Business | by silverygelatin

Closed for Business [Peoria, Illinois]: photo by Brian Rowe, 16 February 2016

Closed for Business | by silverygelatin

Closed for Business [Peoria, Illinois]: photo by Brian Rowe, 16 February 2016

Peoria Graffiti | by silverygelatin

Peoria Graffiti  [Peoria, Illinois]: photo by Brian Rowe, 23 March 2016

Secure privacy | by efo

Secure privacy [Richmond, California]: photo by efo, 17 April 2016

If you can't afford cable | by michaelj1998

If you can't afford cable [Los Angeles, California]
: photo by michaelj1998, 13 May 2016


Pauls | by michaelj1998

Pauls [Los Angeles, California]: photo by michaelj1998, 11 May 2016

Pauls | by michaelj1998

Pauls [Los Angeles, California]: photo by michaelj1998, 11 May 2016

Mt. View Tea Room | by efo

Mt. View Tea Room [Tyro, Virginia]: photo by efo, 21 May 2016

Mt. View Tea Room | by efo

Mt. View Tea Room [Tyro, Virginia]: photo by efo, 21 May 2016

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