This month’s Smithsonian magazine has an article about Allen Ginsberg’s photography. He captioned almost everyone of his pictures. Here’s a young Jack Kerouac, looking vital in the streets of New York: Allen Ginsberg said that Kerouac was “making a Dostoyevsky mad-face or Russian basso be-bop Om”. And here’s Jack Kerouac 10 years later, on the [...]
Category Archives: Ideas & Images I Love
The Free and The Grounded
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
To the Oak Tree If I love you – I never behave like a climbing trumpet vine Using your high branches to show off; If I love you – I never mimic infatuated little birds Repeating monotonous songs into the shadows, Nor do I look at all like wellspring Sending out its cooling consolation all [...]
Others Just Let A River Go By
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
The calenders pile up in a neat stack. I knew they would. I tried to forget about them yet the days… I am older now and still a child but time is a thirsty germ. I have one year left to play in this lot and am afraid. Some people think about what they do [...]
Red Strings
Sunday, April 18, 2010
There is the heaven we enter through institutional grace and there are the yellow finches bathing and singing in the lowly puddle. Yellow, the first poem in Mary Oliver’s latest book Evidence. I once drew a picture, titled Red Strings. There are two parts to this picture, I always try to explain. But even I [...]
Ruins
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Top and bottom photos taken from aghersan‘s photo stream; clown on chair in store. We have been surrounded by ruins this past week. Old things, old talk, old folks. The right word with the young is ‘collectibles’, but it’s ok, ruins is not ruined. The year 2010 is a special year for me. I’ve met [...]
