TOM CLARK: Wooden Boy: All the heat gone | The Easter Miracle of Slippery Jesus (Coexistence 2)

L1000821 | Hong Kong 2009: photo by Pierre Wayser, 5 March 2009

Longleat Forest 5: photo by Andy Feltham, 21 March 2018

IMG_0201 1000px | Weymouth, March 2018: photo by Paul Russell, 23 March 2018

Wooden Boy: All the heat gone

Frayed tarmac in 4pm February sun
furtive moss clusters be gone

neon tube hiss
shrugged off antennae

Now all the oddbod crocus fingers creak
a yellow stepladder floats from his big arm

So bird lime at the edges of the wired glass

history cakes
and blisters and
half hid
stains on the waterbed too

No magic vestiges
even in felt tip flowers and leaves

Quiet is an hour or so hung up for afters

before hometime hands say

Wooden Boy: All the heat gone, from The Little Wooden Boy, 2 April 2018

Coexistence [Dhaka]: photo by Md. Enamul Kabir, 26 March 2018

Remembrance Way 2 [Power station, Ratcliffe on Soar, Nottinghamshire]: photo by Andy Feltham, 4 November 2017

truck wash | A47 Bypass, Wisbech: photo by lambert bank, 1 April 2018

1978_4017 | China 1978 Canton, Guangzhou, China 1978 Hua Guofeng authorised tourist visas… Because France recognised People's Republic of China in 1964, as a frenchman, I got quite quickly a visa from the China Travel Agency in Hong Kong in the early 1978… "On 6 October 1976, shortly after the death of Mao, Hua removed the Gang of Four from political power by arranging for their arrests in Beijing. Afterwards he took on the titles of party chairman and Chairman of the Central Military Commission. Hua is thus far the only leader to have simultaneously held the offices of party leader, premier and CMC chairman... Hua attempted moderate reforms and reversing some of the excesses of Cultural Revolution-era policies. However, because of his insistence on continuing the Maoist line, he faced resistance in the upper echelons of the party. In December 1978, a group of party veterans led by Deng Xiaoping, a pragmatic reformer, forced Hua from power but allowed him to retain some titles. Hua gradually faded into political obscurity, but continued to insist on the correctness of Maoist principles." Wikipedia: photo by Pierre Wayser, sometime in 1978

Untitled: photo by Marco, 24 March 2018

the pits | Etton-Maxey, Cambridgeshire: photo by lambert bank, 24 March 2018

Untitled: photo by andreas vekinis, 9 March 2018

Woburn: photo by Andy Feltham, 7 September 2017

Great Yarmouth 3 - Incidental View Book | by Andy Feltham...

Great Yarmouth 3: photo by Andy Feltham, 8 January 2016

Hawksmore Way: photo by Andy Feltham, 11 January 2018

the stone rolls back (WDJG, or The Easter Miracle of Slippery Jesus)

President Trump on the South Portico of the White House with the Easter Bunny standing behind him Photo Carlos Barria: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 2 April 2018

The little newborn wombat baby APARI sits in its mother's pouch at the zoo today in Duisburg, Germany. | Photo Martin Meissner: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 29 March 2018

On a chilly cloudy morning, children take part in the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Grounds of the White House.: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 2 April 2018

Absolutely disgusting. I remember when Easter Eggs said "Easter" on them.: image via Fred Delicious @fred_delicious, 26 March 2018

The stone rolls back and Jesus, nude and covered in baby lotion just slides out on his stomach at 1mph. Face down. Just slides over the horizon. No one knows where he went.: tweet via Fred Delicious @fred_delicious, 30 March 2018

Absolutely disgusting. I remember when Easter Eggs said "Easter" on them.: image via Fred Delicious @fred_delicious, 26 March 2018

A guard serves desert to an immigrant prisoner at an ICE detention center run by the for-profit Geo Group in CA in 2013. #undocumentedbook #gettyimages #gettyimagesnews #immigration #archives #photojournalism: image via John Moore @jbmoorephoto, 31 March 2018

Absolutely disgusting. I remember when Easter Eggs said "Easter" on them.: image via Fred Delicious @fred_delicious, 26 March 2018

#MarlonBundo has company today at the White House as @POTUS kicks off the annual #WhiteHouseEasterEggRoll: Photo @somogettynews, 2 April 2018

Absolutely disgusting. I remember when Easter Eggs said "Easter" on them.: image via Fred Delicious @fred_delicious, 26 March 2018

As we said last year, the @WhiteHouse Easter egg event is one of the rare chances to observe the Trumps socially. This year was chillier--and it wasn't just the weather. Case in point, #Melania in the colonnade before she saw the cameras. ...Or, maybe she had. @somogettynews: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 2 April 2018

Um...had saw?? Aww c'mon ... where DID Jesus go?? Not into the Easter Egg surely!! It's gonna be SOO crowded in there!!

#02 dhaka | 2018: photo by Sohail Bin Mohammad, 25 March 2018

#Argentina Boca Juniors' forward Walter Bou celebrates after scoring against Talleres in Argentina First Division Superliga at La Bombonera stadium, in Buenos Aires.#AFPPhoto by @AlejandroPagni: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 2 April 2018

Syrian children playing football near destroyed buildings in a revolutionaries-held area of the southern Syrian city of #Daraa on April 2, 2018 #Russia_war_cup_2018: image via Mohamad Abazeed @AbazidMohamad, 2 April 2018

Syrian Coalition Urges #Syria's Friends Action to Relieve People Being Displaced from #EasternGhouta and to support #Douma: image via Rashid @MohammadiRashid, 1 April 2018

This little girl, she left all her belongings while coming out of #Douma, except her two pigeons, she could not leave them behind. #Syria: image via Ingy Sedky @isedkyICRC, 31 March 2018

A boy waves a Palestinian flag at the Israel-Gaza border, during clashes with Israeli troops, after one of the deadliest days of unrest in the area in years Photo Mohammed Salem: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 2 April 2018

5 comments:

TC2 April 2018 at 16:34
Few are the things to love anymore esp when you're an expiring grouch and yet... there is the poetry of Wooden Boy, the photography of Md. Enamul Kabir... making us so happy to have been here, when we take a step back... meanwhile trying not to step into the next same atmospheric river twice (leaky shoes, metal cane won't float, don't we hate metal, so inferior to wood)...
TC2 April 2018 at 17:11
Nina Simone: Ain't Got No...(live Paris 1968)

Nina Simone: Ain't Got No...(live USA n.d., sous-titres)
kent3 April 2018 at 00:40
So inferior indeed.
Mose233 April 2018 at 03:47
Thanks, Tom. Looking at the pictures of Cambridgeshire, I'm remind we both know that territory a little. All the fens round Wisbech; an odd old place.

Nina Simone is Coatlicue: goddess of life, birth, death, the whole shebang. There's not a bloody soul to fill the space she left.
TC3 April 2018 at 11:04
Thanks kent and WB,

And once again I say I do love such things as

Now all the oddbod crocus fingers creak
a yellow stepladder floats from his big arm

So bird lime at the edges of the wired glass

in which I hear a manual of poetic instruction subtly writ... and in every passage and part of this poet's work I hear his distinct sound, forever interesting to me, and very much his own, so that I could never mistake his lines for those of anyone else.

We remember that no wood was not at some living, and of how many things around us can we say this.

Andy Feltham's transcendent surrealist Longleat phone kiosk knocks me out, and was the top picture here until it in turn was knocked out, willy nilly and topsy turvy, by the unbelievably wonderful Pierre Wayser archival Hong Kong boat shot, which contains all the mystery and beauty and darkness we could ever demand out of those we love.

Monday, 2 April 2018

Wooden Boy: All the heat gone | The Easter Miracle of Slippery Jesus (Coexistence 2)

Wooden Boy: All the heat gone

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