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Sun Feb-01-09 09:01 AM
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The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sun 2/1/2009) |
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Pixels
Each small thing he examines, every microdot in the computer's blown-up photograph of rose petals, thumbnails, many portions of wide and narrow letters (without a microscope to take him further in) blurs and fades to white or gray or dark from which, at last, he pulls his eyes away, blinking and tearing. It's then he understands why before Galileo the world seemed details that mysteriously formed out of the void, and the void to elements: from air, the cedar branch drifting over Huan Valley; from fire, iron parapets and sibyl's smoke; from water the wondrous scales of many fish; and from the earth, green meadows running on and on until stopped by forest. He taps some keys and the picture shrinks, resolves itself into the small scene that he started with, the woman pressing a flower in between torn pages of a book so thin it must be poetry.
Dick Allen
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Sun Feb-01-09 09:46 AM
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Sun Feb-01-09 12:51 PM
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Sun Feb-01-09 12:29 PM
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2. from a microscope to a wide angle lens -- it is all about the view |
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Sun Feb-01-09 12:52 PM
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6. " it is all about the view" |
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Sun Feb-01-09 12:51 PM
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What a vision!
I'm loving this one...
Thank you!
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Sun Feb-01-09 12:52 PM
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Sun Feb-01-09 01:07 PM
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The story of life... I still find those flowers...from so many years ago.
Very nice.:hug:
peace~
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