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"It's about words, and words are all I have…"

Archive for the day “October 25, 2012”

LET THERE BE

LET  THERE    BE

He is a 1 armed photographer   He looks pretty

grizzled  and 1/2 mad    gazing at the sky  as though

he can force the light to co-operate    Or maybe a

wizened old magician who makes the light  happen

One eye often closed   Silverhaired cyclops  carrying

his camera through the woods   for 60 yrs.

 

He said:  Either you see it   or you don’t

I say:  Either you hear it    or you don’t    

 

The sound of words    falling from    the tortured mouth     of the muse

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Fall  2012  A.G.O.  Joseph Sudek   The Legacy Of A Deeper Vision

IF YOU DO NOT GO THERE

IF YOU DO NOT GO THERE    FATE WILL TAKE YOU KICKING & SCREAMING*

It would be so much easier to take photographs

Capture the essence in a click      There.   Ah.   Yes.   Done.

My heart flutters with excitement     I could put down this

wretched pen   and not have to dredge up  words   ever again

O the pulling dragging wrenching digging    clenching of teeth   

 

Or perhaps I should just confine myself to    appropriation?

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*C.G. Jung

 

Fall  2012

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