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Tag Archives: ephemera
Sepia
Nostalgia is a death-trap, eating its own tail and leading nowhere. Nostalgia copulates with ghosts in dusty storage rooms and snakelike corridors. Now and again and again now never is nostalgia’s recipe and calling card. Nostalgia is the last picture … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged calendar, ephemera, eternity, fragment, Literary, nostalgia, photography, Poetry, Prose, time, travel
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Remains of the Day
Time, ordered to frieze, and meld its constituents– No eyewitnesses.
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged 1977, abandoned shop, abstract, calendar, ephemera, faded, haiku, las vegas nm, merger, photography, Poetry
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Ephemera
“A photograph is a secret about a secret”— Diane Arbus Two snaps from a series of Polaroid experiments related to my novel, The Last Furies, forthcoming from Lost Telegram Press.
Posted in Artwork, Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Prose, Publications
Tagged ephemera, experimental, lot telegram press, novel, polaroid, Prose, Publication, vanishing point
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Intrigue
Plots, in a mysterious ceremony, unending. Ephemera becomes us, if only briefly.
Transit
No words to describe this passing sense, here now gone— Dreaming in real-time.
Night Beat
It is in these moments when the pumpkin orange glow of the lanterns softens the streets and the bicycles lined up in rows compose portraits of ordered symmetry, that the night turns in on itself, and with it goes I, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged after dark, blues, ephemera, ghosts, japan, niigata, poem, Poetry, streetlamps, streets
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Enigma
From the series, Japan Poems. Mottling, scars, green, elements blend, fade, reseed– Where was I, what, when?
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged cloudy skies, ephemera, haiku, house, japan, niigata, poem, scene, train
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Testament
From the series, Japan Poems. The sea’s fathomless span, its give and crush a remedial balm and testament to the touch of what grieves us. We surrender to longed-for renditions of us going away from ourselves to meet ourselves in … Continue reading
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Tagged crossing, ephemera, ferry, japan, niigata, poem, ship, voyage
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Seasons
From the series, Japan Poems Street festival, June, summer kimonos in bloom– Autumn waits its turn.
Floating World
Within the hyphenated seizure of rain upon stone, a lyrical wake of kisses threading sky to the earth-sown– Images of the floating world perceive our birth and death, we go on, surviving our ghosts, dissolving into unmembered deeds of light, … Continue reading
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged ephemera, floating world, japan, niigata, poem, portrait, rainy day, sacred, shrine
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