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December 21, 2025 Street Scenes Post a Comment

I write your name

A faded place-name sign with the name written in graffiti

“I write your name
Everywhere I go
Like a worn out code
Just to let you know”

(Jim Carroll Band in I write your name)
Visé (B)

December 3, 2025 Street Scenes Post a Comment

Just sitting here: no stopping!

A bench under a tree with traffic signs for no stopping

“A man was sitting underneath a tree
Outside the village, and he asked me what
Name was upon this place, and said that he
Was never here before. He told a lot
Of stories to me too.”

(James Stephen in Seumas Beg)
Eupen (B)

November 22, 2025 Street Scenes Post a Comment

After the kitchen disappeared I’m standing here alone

Kitchen wall in a demolition property with a beech tree

“A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew,
And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light,
And closed them beneath the kisses of night.”

(P. B. Shelley in The sensitive plant)
Seraing (B)

October 4, 2025 Street Scenes Post a Comment

When will the flame burn again for me?

A pile of firewood next to a "Burn" energy drink vending machine

“Tell me—I’ve got to know
Tell me—Tell me before I go
Does that flame still burn, Does that fire still glow
Or has it died out and melted like the snow
Tell me
Tell me”

(Bob Dylan in Tell me)
Spa (B)

September 17, 2025 Street Scenes Post a Comment

When will the farrier come here again?

“Wonder where this horseshoe went.
Up and down, up and down,
Up and past the monument,
Maybe into town.

Wait a minute. “Horseshoe,
How far have you been?””

( Edna St. Vincent Millay, no title in Poems Selected for Young People)
Grâce-Hollogne (B)

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I write your name

Just sitting here: no stopping!

After the kitchen disappeared I’m standing here alone

When will the flame burn again for me?

When will the farrier come here again?