Saturday 22 October 2011

The Street (Fisheye Perspective)


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Fisheye panorama at the intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street, New York City: photo by Martin St-Amant, 12 October 2008




Creeps crawl
nightcrawlers creep
The money is tired
but the money never sleeps

within the echoing
vacuum of The Street






U.S. headquarters of Deutsche Bank, 60 Wall Street, New York City: photo by Mike Roberts, 4 January 2007
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9 comments:

  1. Issa's Untidy Hut22 October 2011 at 08:04

    Tom,

    A Blakean feel to this little beauty. The poem and photo seemingly mirror reflections, especially sans the period. Round and round we go.

    Fine work.

    Don

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  2. TC22 October 2011 at 08:34

    Don,

    Yes, these weeks the mind has been swimming around in dizzying reflective channels... picking up faint atonal ambient songs of Eternal Ignorance and Twice-Shy Experience -- whether "real" or not, dimly audible in the city air, these late hours and minutes of confused clarity.

    ("Something's going on, but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?")

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  3. Issa's Untidy Hut22 October 2011 at 08:44

    Tom:

    The difference between the sentient and not: knowing the not-knowing.

    For this, we declare ourselves top of the food chain? No wonder we're all so dizzy.

    Don

    PS Yes, the twice-shy has been in the forefront of my mind in recent days, too. And that ominous Blakean feel - so very, very hard to shake.

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  4. Ed Baker22 October 2011 at 08:45

    nothing more
    &
    noh-thing less

    than (its)
    numerate solitude:

    if it wasn't for my memory

    I wldn't get noh-sex !

    (or poems/art - images : real or imgined

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  5. ACravan22 October 2011 at 09:41

    The poem and photos (especially the fish-eye view) are very, very effective. The previous comments all add significantly to the experience. Curtis

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  6. Nin Andrews22 October 2011 at 10:21

    Love the fish-eye view. Love the poem.

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  7. vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)22 October 2011 at 23:53

    Tom,

    Nice to see how this little one finally evolved from the earlier sneak-preview version you sent me as comment on one of my own.

    WV: sucksa!

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  8. TC23 October 2011 at 07:55

    In the middle of the dark wood of my life, I made a dumb left turn and got a job. The bosses had made their money in the Market and with that money they made a Metro magazine. I was the editor. Once the bosses discovered that the magazine was not promoting the town from which it emanated, their visits to the office became increasingly tense. They had grasped that we, the, staff, were, in fact, the enemy. They could feel our eyeballs bearing into their backs.

    They accused us of one unforgivable workplace crime, which one of them described as "giving the fisheye".

    While on Dantesque situations...

    Before hell mouth (Wall Street), Ezra Pound encountered William Blake, running on a corkscrewing road on a steel mountain.

    And the running form, naked, Blake,
    Shouting, whirling his arms, the swift limbs,
    Howling against the evil,
    his eyes rolling,
    whirling like flaming cart-wheels,
    and his head held backwards to gaze on the evil
    As he ran from it...

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  9. ACravan23 October 2011 at 08:43

    No, Tom -- Not the fisheye! I wish I had a chance to read your Metro magazine. The Pound excerpt is wonderful. Curtis

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