The fleeting world - Bubbles in a Stream

November 7, 2021 Street scenes - buildings

A stairwell to sing in

“Now, he sang in stairwells: great acoustics!
Arias, pop songs, show tunes…Nobody
ever saw him. He was always
A flight below, or above, But his voice
throbbed through the entire
stair vestibule of a building—
stirring, thick, authentic.
Closing your eyes, you could easily
imagine yourself at Carnegie Hall.”

(M. Reif in The Stairwell Crooner)
Eindhoven (NL)

October 30, 2021 Transport

Where a railroad bridge finds its end

“Ain’t talkin’, just walkin’
I’ll burn that bridge before you can cross
Heart burnin’, still yearnin’
They’ll be no mercy for you once you’ve lost“

(Bob Dylan in Aint’t Talkin’)
Liège (B)

October 20, 2021 Religious objects

Write a letter with all your burdens to Mother Mary

I wished to post a letter,
But although I paid much,
Still the letter was overweight.
“What is in this package?” said the clerk,
“It is very heavy.”
“Yes,” I said,
“And yet it is only a dried fruit.”

A. Lowell in Dreams in War Time
Liège (B)

October 17, 2021 Street scenes - garages and parking places

The doors that saw many things pass

“Why did he choose to come to my door,
the wandering youth, when the day dawned?
As I come in and out I pass by him every time …”

(R.Tagore in the gardener)
Liège (B)

October 12, 2021 Landscapes

Watch out for the teeth of this pony

“I had a little pony,
His name was Dapple Grey:
I lent him to a lady
To ride a mile away,
She whipped him, she lashed him,
She rode him through the mire;
I’ll never lend my nag again
For any lady’s hire.”

(Anonymous in Nurse Lovechild’s Legacy)
Liège (B)