Photo: Gerst
What none knows is when, not if.
Frank Bedart, “If see No End In Is.”
The Summer in Photos: August 29, 2019
Month / June 2021
The Summer in Photos: June 24, 2021
Photo: Gerst
Summer Recording Workshop, “Because”
A dove came down to sit with me. Brown as a lump she sat with her tail twitching and her eyes turning. I could watch the throb of her breathing.
Photo: Gerst
One Moment: June 20, 2020
Anecdote of the Jar
Wallace Stevens
One Moment: June 20, 2021
A great squalling & clattering of wings…something alarming to a cloud of birds invisible behind the trees…pandemonium…and then a small red fox emerged from behind the rose of Sharron bush and sauntered across the lawn…. How bright he was! How bouncing and jaunty and full of joy he seemed and how oblivious to the terrified birds who beheld him and somehow knew, never having seen such a creature in these suburban woods, that his joy was their despair. And all this time, the wind blew and the sun shone and world continued oblivious to their terror and his triumphant solitude. (7:45 AM)
Apollo’s Fire & Amanda Powell, “A Fox Went Out On a Chilly Night”
Four Harmonies: June 19, 2021
Emperor Huizong (r. 1100-1126), “Auspicious Cranes” (1112)
Spectrogram of a singing cardinal (Cornell Lab of Ornithology Macaulay Library)
sound of a singing cardinal (Cornell Lab of Ornithology Macaulay Library)
The Summer in Photos: June 18, 2021
Mendlessohn, A Midsummer’s Night Dream Overture—Russian Philharmonic-Moscow City Symphony
Feed him with apricocks and dewberries,
With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries;
The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees,
And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs
And light them at the fiery glow-worm’s eyes...
Shakespeare, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Act III, Scene I
The Summer in Photos: June 17, 2021
Photo: Gerst
Poem: John Donne, “The Sun Rising” Read Aloud By Richard Burton
The Summer in Photos: June 15, 2021
Photo: Gerst June 2021 Digital Image
Mervyn O’Gorman, Summer 1913. Autochrome Color Photo of his daughter Christina O’Gorman, Lulworth Cove, Dorset, England,
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Edgar Allen Poe
The Summer in Photos: June 13, 2021
Photo: Gerst
The foxglove bells, with lolling tongue,
Will not reveal what peals were rung
In Faery, in Faery,
A thousand ages gone.
All the golden clappers hang
As if but now the changes rang;
Only from the mottled throat
Never any echoes float.
Mary Webb, The Foxglove Bells
The Summer in Photos: June 13, 2021
Photo: Gerst
The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of water, the beard of earth.
William Blake, Proverbs of Hell
The rabbit was eating peaches fallen from the tree. She looked up at me as if to say, “Who are you to visit me as the sun is setting and the night begins to fall?”
I suffered for young birds, for young rabbits caught in the mower,
My grief was not excessive.
For to come upon warblers in early May
Was to forget time and death:
Theodore Roethke, “The Far Field”