The World Examining Works

Dinosaur

The dinasaur looks a pretty shifty character to me -- look how he has his foot on the boy in the field.

He lives in the castle along with the other creatures.

If you give him enough play dough to eat, you'll probably be safe for a while.

 

 

What I Take Photos Of.....

 

The short answer is everything.

I don't go in cars very often, so crossing the 59th Street Bridge was something of an adventure. All that metal and odd angles....

and the fun of a rear view mirror

and ending up in Queens -- pretty much terra incognita except around Deniz's house.

This light up bill-board for a church seems much more what one would expect from a 1940's movie theater. The Grecian urns add a classical note.

Back in home teritory, such a symphony of wheels on 23rd Street. The star is the Moto Guzzi.

On 22nd Street a mysteriously ecclesiastical door almost invites you in and then doesn't. I like the colors.

The gardens below my window are greening up  -- note the deciduous pine tree behind the oregano.

This is my best picture from yesterday. The single flower got broken off the orchid I bought at Trader Joe's. The background is a piece of scrap paper from Robert's art table.

Things I never take pictures of:

the homeless

mad people

children (except my own family)

sports cars

 

Apparently Amazon thinks my poem book  is a 'hot new release'!

I'm astounded.

 

 

World Trade Center

 

I usually see the rebuilding downtown from the bike path along the Hudson but yesterday I was on my way to meet a friend at Poets House and took the subway to Chambers Street. This is from the walk way. A wild windy afternoon.

I felt quite dizzy looking up.

The bridge over the West Side Highway.

Up again....

Jane, who I had lunch with, had been working at the WTC on September 11th. "Feels like yesterday," she said.

So wisteria on 22nd Street as an antidote.

 

Subway Series

 

 

The iPhone is the ideal toy for entertaining yourself on the subway.

For one thing, it renders it oddly painterly.

It gives you something to do while hanging about on the platform...

If you look very carefully you can see that this is an E train arriving....

and a patriotic one at that.

This is people getting on the train I just got off at Penn Station.

The exit

and heading up towards Macy's, where, you will be thrilled to know, I bought the Egyptian cotton bed sheets I could not buy last Wednesday (see previous post!)

 

 

 

No Vegetation

 

My other blog is awash in spring flowers --so none on this one.

They'r re-doing a building across the street --so rather nice billowing drop cloth/curtain/hardboard.

They are also doing all sorts of stuff that requires BIG trucks. I'm never quite sure about "God Bless America" stickers. Do they mean God bless America and no where else? 

Anyway,  the truck above had evil spiky rims that Bodacia would have approved of.

One of the perils of city living is having your car window smashed (something we avoid by not having a car). For some reason plastic photographs prettily.

 

Last Wednesday I had a very small adventure when I was in Macy's Herald Square when they had a fire. (Lucliky no injuries).

A good excuse to take a closeup of a fire truck.

Poem books will shortly be sent to Bee and Jo.

 

 

Poetry

 

 

 

My father, who was a very sensible man, liked the old adage, "Never explain; never apologise." (Though he often did both himself.)

A very small collection of my poems is now available here. (The first two poems appear in a preview).

The poems are about very ordinary things

domestic life

trying to be creative

 discovering bugs that hide under planks

and why jeans wick up puddle-damp and catch on your shoes and trip you up.

I have two proof copies to give away. Just leave a comment or email me and I'll pick  the names on Saturday.