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| Paul Cézanne Bathers 1896-97 lithograph National Galleries of Scotland |
Mirrorland
I wanted to know more of the soldiers
On the other side of the looking glass
I wanted to know how they got there
What they are doing there
I wanted to know more of myself around them
How I got there
Why I got there
What I am doing there again
I wanted to know more of memories
I wanted to know more of remembrances
I wanted to know more of myself
On the other side of the looking glass
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| Ernest Stamp after Frederick Walker A Rainy Day at Cookham 1894 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Henry Charles Fehr The Rescue of Andromeda 1893 bronze Tate Gallery |
Glad Tidings
I think there is a mermaid in the water
I think it tugs on the pulse
I think it tugs on the pulsations
I think it sings in the azure
I think it sings in the breezes
I think it sings in the branches
I think it sings in the trees
I think it sings in the leaves
I think it sings in the seaweed
I think it sings in the sky above
I think it sings rockaby baby in the treetop
I think it sings for a fair day
I think it sings for a boy who is going to go to the fairy world
I think it sings of the poet laureate
I think it sings for a boy who is going to wear long hair
I think it sings glad tidings
I think it sings of the soul
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| Franck (photographer, Paris) Ivory statuettes of Spring and Summer 1868 photograph Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Franck (photographer, Paris) Ivory statuettes of Autumn and Winter 1868 photograph Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Anonymous printmaker Foreign Picture Gallery of the Dublin International Exhibition 1865 wood-engraving from the Illustrated London News British Museum |
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| Anonymous photographer Arch of Constantine, Rome ca. 1860 albumen print National Galleries of Scotland |
June Silver
I wanted you to know of
The black June bug
That buzzed silver
But I wanted you to know of
June silver, of blue silver
During the month of June
I wanted you to know
I rocked in a rocking chair
And all along the silvery vines
I wanted you to know I knew
Of a boy who rocked on top of a rocking horse
And up and down the wiry plains
I wanted you to know of
Blue silver, of black silver
During the month of June silver
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| Richard Cockle Lucas Miniature profile-portrait of a Roman Emperor ca. 1840-65 ivory relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Richard Cockle Lucas Miniature portrait of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ca. 1850 ivory relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Johann Gottfried Schadow Portrait of the Rabe children - Hermann, age 14 and Edmond, age 7 1822 lithograph Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| John Hayter Heads of five Armenian monks 1818 drawing British Museum |
Sunburst
I was urged
I couldn't say no
I didn't say no
It was stronger than myself
I was going to do what girls do
I was going to be a beautiful nurse
I flowed with the sunburst on the classroom window
I tied a ribbon in my long brown hair
I began my life's ambition
I began my soul
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| John Hayter Man seated at desk, reading a document through a magnifying glass 1817 drawing British Museum |
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| Pierre Escuyer La Grotte des Fées (near St Maurice in Valais, Switzerland) ca. 1800-1820 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| Thomas Rowlandson The Hall, Carlton House 1808 hand-colored etching and aquatint Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
– poems are from A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: the Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton (Brooklyn : The Song Cave, 2013)