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March 7, 2025 Still Life Post a Comment

Does a bird dare to sing in front of this window?

“Zwitschert nicht vor meinem Fenster,
Liebe Vögelein!
Sucht euch eine and’re Stelle,
Liebe Vögelein!

Setzt euch nicht auf Kerkergitter,
Liebe Vögelein!
In der Seele des Gefang’nen
Weckend Sehnsuchtspein.”

(R. Hamerling in An die Vögel)
Esneux (B)

January 9, 2025 Street scenes - buildings Post a Comment

Sitting in meditation

“It is not far, it is within reach,
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know,
Perhaps it is everywhere on water and on land.”

(W. Whitman, no title in Song of myself)
IJmuiden (NL)

January 6, 2025 What has been left Post a Comment

The anatomy of a door

“Broken bodies, broken bones
Broken voices on broken phones
Take a deep breath, feel like you’re chokin’
Everything is broken”

(Bob Dylan in Everything is broken)
IJmuiden (NL)

September 25, 2024 Street scenes - buildings

I didn’t want to see that electrical box from the room anymore

“And so you found that poor room dull,
Dark, hardly to your taste, my dear?
Its features seemed unbeautiful:
But this I know — ‘t was there, not here,
You plighted troth to me, the word
Which — ask that poor room how it heard”

(R. Browning in Appearances)
Seraing (B)

August 28, 2024 Street Scenes

No more milk shakes here

“Truth, sir is a cow that will yield no more milk,
And so they’ve gone out to milk the bull.”

(Samuel Johnson)
Liège (B)

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Does a bird dare to sing in front of this window?

Sitting in meditation

The anatomy of a door

I didn’t want to see that electrical box from the room anymore

No more milk shakes here