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By: postal poetry » last night I dreamt of circles

postal poetry » last night I dreamt of circles — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:43:12 +0000

[...] an image by Mikey G Ottawa (compare Nathan Horowitz’s treatment of the same image in “fisheye“), and told us, “I really did have a dream about lives going round in circles. When I [...]

By: Leslie F. Miller

Leslie F. Miller — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:23:04 +0000

I utterly adore this, especially the illustration like a telescope. Delish.

By: Nathan H

Nathan H — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:59:17 +0000

Cheers. This text is a piece of a slightly longer poem. If it works here, it illustrates the virtue of cutting out all that is not absolutely essential.

Mikey’s b/w photo reminds me of the 1980s, of memory, of gray winter days in student housing where the best heat comes from another naked body. The fisheye lens gives us two levels of reality, analogous to someone in the present reflecting on the past.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:16:22 +0000

Clever, Nathan. Love it.

By: christine

christine — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:24:50 +0000

This is wonderful, just wonderful!