a comet in trousers



“...I have gathered them all together
like a casual group of strangers
at this meeting place under my roof
who will never meet again
their relationship only supplied by me
who told them to come here
to wait and be silent on my wall
while I contemplate
not their nature but my own
and know as much about myself
by proxy as from looking deep
into the mirror of what i am

it is very puzzling
this flow of self outward”


- Al Purdy ON MY WORKROOM WALL


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    • #Avalanche Chruch
    • #Betamax
    • #Dorset
    • #History
    • #NB
    • #Scans
    • #St. Andrews Memorial Church
    • #Self
    ^^^ Sunday, July 1, 2012
    Some 2,500 years after the first Jews established roots in Babylon, the once-vibrant and prosperous Jewish community of Iraq has disappeared. A community that numbered close to 140,000 in the late 1940 and comprised fully one-third of Baghdad s population consisted of a mere 20 when U.S. tanks rolled into the Iraqi capital in 2003.
    • #Iraq
    • #Jewish
    • #history
    ^^^ Sunday, September 18, 2011
    
Tzar Nicholas II and Tzarevich Alexei
    • #Tsar Nicholas II
    • #Alexei Romanov
    • #history
    • #romanov
    • #royalty
    ^^^ Saturday, September 10, 2011
    • #Abraham Lincoln
    • #photography
    • #black and white
    • #history
    ^^^ Saturday, September 3, 2011