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Sunday 3 June 2018

poetry (storm rolling in) | Joseph Ceravolo: Drunk on the Brain (Un Here) | "Your life as a lens..."

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9937 | by pkomo

9937: photo by Petros Kotzabasis, 27 May 2018

California | by michaelj1998

Untitled | by sasistudios

Untitled | by sasistudios

Untitled: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 9 May 2018
9530 | by pkomo

9530: photo by Petros Kotzabasis, 15 May 2018

My work From Jan-July 17 | by nayeemsiddiquee

My work From Jan-July 17 | by nayeemsiddiquee

My work From Jan-July 17 | by nayeemsiddiquee

679 00323 | by sotblindphot

679 00323: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 31 May 2018

679 00323 | by sotblindphot

679 00323: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 31 May 2018

679 00323 | by sotblindphot

679 00323: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 31 May 2018

Your life as a lens, searching 
 within that unending strangeness 
that is the world -
a wave that crests and breaks
back - dispersal 
an everyday falling apart
refraction 
         is light 
     transmission 
what you were breaks    
                      down and scatters
on the wind


DSC05892 | by sotblindphot

DSC05892: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 15 May 2018

DSC05892 | by sotblindphot

DSC05892: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 15 May 2018

DSC05892 | by sotblindphot

DSC05892: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 15 May 2018

DSC09825 | by sotblindphot


DSC09825 | by sotblindphot


DSC09825 | by sotblindphot

DSC09698 | by sotblindphot

DSC09698 | by sotblindphot

DSC09698 | by sotblindphot

Débil fortaleza | by Leila Forés

Débil fortaleza: photo by Leila Forés, 4 May 2018

Untitled | by sasistudios

Untitled | by Bastex - Unknown Street Photographer

Cracow, 2018: photo by Bastex - Unknown Street Photographer, 9 May 2018

Untitled | by Bastex - Unknown Street Photographer

Cracow, 2018: photo by Bastex - Unknown Street Photographer, 9 May 2018

Untitled | by Bastex - Unknown Street Photographer

Cracow, 2018: photo by Bastex - Unknown Street Photographer, 9 May 2018

Live in Shadow | by Bastex - Unknown Street Photographer

Untitled | by Bastex - Unknown Street Photographer


Untitled | by Bastex - Unknown Street Photographer


Untitled | by Bastex - Unknown Street Photographer


on the road again | by Rafael Heredia

sacred | by Liofwine

sacred: photo by Lieven Bellefroid, 24 April 2018

sacred | by Liofwine

sacred: photo by Lieven Bellefroid, 24 April 2018

sacred | by Liofwine

sacred: photo by Lieven Bellefroid, 24 April 2018

Come hither to go yonder | by Liofwine
Come hither to go yonder: photo by Lieven Bellefroid, 28 May 2018

Come hither to go yonder | by Liofwine

Come hither to go yonder: photo by Lieven Bellefroid, 28 May 2018

Come hither to go yonder | by Liofwine

2 comments:

Mose23 said...

that unending strangeness
that is the world

We can all feel that fall from the crest now, everything unstitching itself. Beautiful poem, Tom

TC said...

Thank you, Duncan. I suspect it's in part an effect of the relative formality / severity of b&w that we are permitted to see something a bit closer to "things as they are", w/o the comforts of familiarity.

Of course the breaking back of the wave - of light, of water, of anything that has wave structure - is always reflected (as v refracted) in the structure of any verse that observes even the faintest memory of a left hand margin.

A wave is meant to lose itself (fall apart), then regather itself, to rise up again. Perhaps this unstitching we feel - felt here as well - is that of a new sort of dreamt physics, inert rather than dynamic, designed to maintain crests forever, a physics of impossible perfection, selfdriving cars and so on, conceptual, impossible, safe, clean, infinitely pragmatic in that way the deadest of "market-driven" concepts always seem to have, anymore.