tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1256360908553967592..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: The AstronomerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-85004394877033146002010-05-24T05:41:18.384-07:002010-05-24T05:41:18.384-07:00Thanks, guys.
Absolutely a hinge poem, turning o...Thanks, guys. <br /><br />Absolutely a hinge poem, turning or twirling back upon itself. <br /><br />(Refraction happens when a wave breaks and turns back upon itself).TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-40006302389237064062010-05-23T19:26:32.868-07:002010-05-23T19:26:32.868-07:00i love the astronomer
peering at the stars
being o...i love the astronomer<br />peering at the stars<br />being observed by distant<br />astronomers<br /><br />- good lens tom<br /><br /><br />refract and distort <br />or reflect and flip<br />turn left or right<br />each decision<br />a universe<br />in which we each<br />may live<br />just in timeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-47994708133463383512010-05-23T12:33:46.497-07:002010-05-23T12:33:46.497-07:00For me, this poem hinged on "to himself."...For me, this poem hinged on "to himself." Just swung it all around on itself and over and back again, made me do a twirl. I like twirling.~otto~https://www.blogger.com/profile/08859835662556335529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-39270904212183127492010-05-23T00:56:20.743-07:002010-05-23T00:56:20.743-07:00Many thanks Leigh and Lucy.
I like the way this o...Many thanks Leigh and Lucy.<br /><br />I like the way this one worked out, the conversation between the images and the words became a little wedding.<br /><br />The glints on the jewel for me are those starlike points of light on the textured fabric folds in the immediate foreground of the close-up detail shot. <br /><br />And I think it is not immodest for me to say that because of course those stars were scattered there not by me but by the ineffable genius of Vermeer.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-28148309772787980022010-05-22T16:33:30.492-07:002010-05-22T16:33:30.492-07:00Impressive, effective and simple. Loved the parall...Impressive, effective and simple. Loved the parallelism between words and image. A jewel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-72447196626189183122010-05-22T15:33:34.447-07:002010-05-22T15:33:34.447-07:00Love this, Tom. Again, insightful pairing of words...Love this, Tom. Again, insightful pairing of words and images - introspectively close up, far away and of course the details. All about light, of which, Vermeer was a master of..https://www.blogger.com/profile/00532376301529981186noreply@blogger.com