Waitress [Palma, Mallorca]: photo by astrid westvang, 31 March 2017
Waitress [Palma, Mallorca]: photo by astrid westvang, 31 March 2017
Waitress [Palma, Mallorca]: photo by astrid westvang, 31 March 2017
Terence Patrick Winch: Displacement
We think of going out
We think of going out
to Baskin Robbins
next to the 7-11.
It’s a humid August night.
The Duchess has died.
The Pearl is gone.
The men in black
dream strange dreams
in arbors green.
A pick-up almost hit an SUV
in the parking
lot. We both order nutty coconut.
The tip jar is overflowing.
We could drive all night
through Rock Creek Park
from dark to light
and inhale the summer
hanging by a thread.
We discuss Stalin and Hitler.
Hitler much more
out of control than Stalin.
Hitler not German,
Stalin not Russian.
Many Germans & Russians die.
Today the seas do not part,
the bushes do not burn.
It is too expensive to live
on the mountain top.
When the boats leave,
nobody waves goodbye.
When the villages empty out,
no one ever returns.
The woods are full
of starving creatures.
They piss outside your window.
The smell
pervades the house.
You cannot scrub it out.
Baskin Robbins / Dunkin' Donuts, New York City: photo by Thomas Hawk, 23 December 2007
Plastic bag newspaper retailing, 7-11 shop, Shek Ton Tsui des Voeux Road West, Hong Kong: photo by SunTsiuKee111, 12 November 2008
Rock Creek Park: photo by J. Maughn, 12 February 2017
Rock Creek Park: photo by J. Maughn, 12 February 2017
Rock Creek Park: photo by J. Maughn, 12 February 2017
Terence Patrick Winch: Return Engagement
I will come back some day.
I will break down the gate.
You must have a passport
and a letter from your sponsor.
The embassy must vouch for you.
You cannot look like a caveman
Or homicidal maniac. You should be
able to do electrical and carpentry work.
You have to remember all your professors.
You must memorize everything they taught you.
All your expired baptismal certificates
and official papers must pass inspection.
Your dead all must swear to support you.
Your ex-lovers must want to sleep with you still.
Rock Creek Park: photo by Mychacos, 7 November 2014
Rock Creek Park: photo by Mychacos, 7 November 2014
Rock Creek Park: photo by Mychacos, 7 November 2014
DSCF0334: photo by Joe Zellers, 25 November 2016
DSCF0334: photo by Joe Zellers, 25 November 2016
DSCF0334: photo by Joe Zellers, 25 November 2016
DPZM4371pe: photo by Joe Zellers, 25 November 2016
DPZM4371pe: photo by Joe Zellers, 25 November 2016
DPZM4371pe: photo by Joe Zellers, 25 November 2016
Street [Palma, Mallorca]: photo by astrid westvang, 20 April 2017
Street [Palma, Mallorca]: photo by astrid westvang, 20 April 2017
Street [Palma, Mallorca]: photo by astrid westvang, 20 April 2017
Prague Dancing Houses: photo by /Holger Blaskowski, 18 April 2015
Havana: photo by /Holger Blaskowski, 18 April 2017
Ghost sign in red [south LA}: photo by Andrew Marr, 18 April 2017
Westport, NZ: photo by bobsan88, 1 March 2017
Okarito, South Westland, NZ: photo by bobsan88, 17 April 2017
Plaza de Toros [Palma, Mallorca]: photo by astrid westvang, 5 April 2017
Plaza de Toros [Palma, Mallorca]: photo by astrid westvang, 5 April 2017
Plaza de Toros [Palma, Mallorca]: photo by astrid westvang, 5 April 2017
Bulls' door [Palma, Mallorca]: photo by astrid westvang, 5 April 2017
Berlin, Pankow: photo by Lyd.ium, March 2017
Berlin, Britz: photo by Lyd.ium, March 2017
't Eilandje, Antwerpen: photo by Pascal Heymans, 31 May 2016
't Eilandje, Antwerpen: photo by Pascal Heymans, 31 May 2016
't Eilandje, Antwerpen: photo by Pascal Heymans, 31 May 2016
Torrevieja, Alicante, Spain: photo by Pascal Heymans, 28 June 2016
2017-80. Crescent City, California: photo by biosfear, 3 April 2017
2017-81. Crescent City, California: photo by biosfear, 3 April 2017
2017-82. Crescent City, California: photo by biosfear, 13 April 2017
Dragon Village. Alameda, California: photo by efo, March 2017
Dragon Village. Alameda, California: photo by efo, March 2017
Dragon Village. Alameda, California: photo by efo, March 2017
Bellisima Creations No. 3. Richmond, Calif.: photo by efo, 26 March 2017
Bellisima Creations No. 3. Richmond, Calif.: photo by efo, 26 March 2017
Bellisima Creations No. 3. Richmond, Calif.: photo by efo, 26 March 2017
Tree [Richmond, California]: photo by efo, March 2017
Tree [Richmond, California]: photo by efo, March 2017
Tree [Richmond, California]: photo by efo, March 2017
8 comments:
Brilliant, and timely, poems...thanks for posting Tom...
TC, I think the cousin of that last tree lives at the end of our block. A woodman knows these things.
And here's the funny thing... that last tree actually lives at the end of our block!
A pollarded tree crying out to the heavens -- "Y?"
Thanks for the fine poems. The dancing house (sometimes referred to Fred & Ginger, by the way) is a good example of how Prague's commitment to architecture continues even to contemporary times. I like to take visitors from the dancing house to a Roman rotunda about a ten-minute walk away, thus showing them the bookends of 900-1000 years of architectural history located in one small area. On the way we pass the building where the Czech paratroopers who assassinated Nazi protectorate governor Reinhard Heydrich made their last stand--the bullet holes are still on the wall around the window.
Rotunda: http://www.digital-guide.cz/media/thumbs/digital_guide/pamatky_by_divine/Nove_Mesto/Rotunda_sv_Longina/001_Rotunda_Sv_Longina_jpg_800x800_q85.jpg
Paratroopers memorial: http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/39647758.jpg
Thanks, Vince. I thought of you (of course) the minute I found that brilliant photo.
Well, no, I thought, first, that I was seeing funny (again).
Then I said, Steady on. And then I thought of you, sturdy guide.
I think it's the angle that makes the shot so good, and the building so right, and the world so wrong.
I would very much love to see the bookends of 90 years of architectural history in one small area, right now, this minute.
I would like to be able to see six inches in front of my face, also.
(Touchstone: "A small reckoning in a little room".)
Alright, make that 900, not 90.
Though 90 would still be a lot. As you obviously know.
Sorry to hear about your eyeball problems but you can still proffer these excellent photos for us all so...get well soon.
By the way, the church where that memorial stands is more of a 18th century cathedral, but it's not such a big 18th century cathedral and Prague is crawling with those anyway so I call it a church. Here's a shot with the door to the basement area where the paratroopers hid: http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/f9fe317ca38b4c52a7fba97d91f8200b/the-ss-cyril-and-methodius-cathedral-in-nov-msto-prague-czech-republic-c425kp.jpg
A bar called "The Parachutists" is across the street. I have not been drinking there.
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