fragile connectivity

A Broken Appointment

BY THOMAS HARDY

         You did not come,

And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb,—

Yet less for loss of your dear presence there

Than that I thus found lacking in your make

That high compassion which can overbear

Reluctance for pure lovingkindness’ sake

Grieved I, when, as the hope-hour stroked its sum,

         You did not come.

         You love not me,

And love alone can lend you loyalty;

–I know and knew it. But, unto the store

Of human deeds divine in all but name,

Was it not worth a little hour or more

To add yet this: Once you, a woman, came

To soothe a time-torn man; even though it be

         You love not me?

Man Ray

"An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human." 

Man Ray

Lauren E. Simonutii (1968-2012)

lauren.rabbit

this world sighed a loss of you.

your visions astonished.

your view of intuition enchanted.

and your emotion transcended.

you will be missed.

Kirchherr and Carver

self portrait

This Room

This room for instance:
is that an empty coach
that waits below?
       
        Promises, promises,
        tell them nothing
        for my sake.

I remember parasols,
an esplanade beside the sea,
yet these flowers...

        Must I ever remain behind-
        listening, smoking,
        scribbling down the next far thing?

I light a cigarette
and adjust the window shade.
There is a noise in the street
growing fainter, fainter.


Raymond Carver

Astrid and Stu

Photography by Astrid Kirchherr

love should not be written in stone but written in water

the world of Idha Lindhag

All photography by Idha Lindhag.

Vesna - Poet

Words are not just words

they are kisses

on the lips of silence

that speak of your essence

~Vesna~