Uploads from swanksalot, tagged poem

Feel of rain in the face

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:17:52 -0700

swanksalot posted a photo:

Venice Beach, LA

poem reads:

Feel of rain in the face
moonjuice
partial to poets
the lady’s tears
-Tony Scibella

seek the rawest truth

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:44:00 -0700

swanksalot posted a photo:

Street art, West Loop somewhere

A Head For Business - Terry Allen

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:03:14 -0800

swanksalot posted a photo:

Actually called Corporate Head.
There is a poem by Philip Levine on the sidewalk, which reads:

They said
I had a head
for business.
They said
to get ahead
I had to lose
my head.
They said
be concrete
& I became
concrete.
They said
go, my son,
multiply,
divide, conquer.
I did my best.

725 S. Figueroa, Los Angeles.

In The Future I Need To Study Greek

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:28:11 -0700

swanksalot posted a photo:

Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: Watts
Film: DreamCanvas
Flash: Off

if the dead knew

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:28:12 -0700

swanksalot posted a photo:

Poem reads:

if the dead
knew

how much the living
grieved them

they would simply
say, “please,
rest in peace"

Hubbard St Gallery, Street Art Adjunct

Six Thousand Thirteen Too Many

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:28:05 -0700

swanksalot posted a photo:

Probably Operation Iraqi Liberation war deaths, but could be referring to something else since 6,013 is the "official" number as of 5/23/2011…

spikegillespie.blogspot.com/2011/05/six-thousand-thirteen...

the season glitters

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Fri, 25 May 2012 06:25:43 -0700

swanksalot posted a photo:

At the Grand / Milwaukee / Halsted intersection.

Reads:
the season glitters

at what cost

to the rest of the world?

More Honey Than She Had Ever Tasted

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:23:18 -0700

swanksalot posted a photo:

Hubbard Street Gallery adjunct

More Anger Than She Had Ever Seen

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:04:55 -0700

swanksalot posted a photo:

Hubbard Street Gallery adjunct

A Small Grain

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:32:29 -0800

swanksalot posted a photo:

by Nautilus.
Halsted and Erie

a small grain
of Time's sand was
placed in her heart
as a child…

but now that
her glass is
nearly full

not even Time
takes the time
to noticea

Poetry Foundation

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:54:47 -0800

swanksalot posted a photo:

Fancy new HQ, due to Ruth Lilly's donation.

See for example:
In 1912, philanthropist Harriet Monroe founded Poetry magazine with a little lovely prose that is as resonant today as it was then:

“In the huge democracy of our age,” said Monroe, “no interest is too slight to have an organ. Every sport, every little industry requires its own corner, its own voice that it may find friends, greet them, welcome them.”

In 2002, Ruth Lilly, then 87, gave $100 million over 30 years to establish The Poetry Foundation which has since published the magazine, a gift that made many gasp since the magazine had often teetered on the edge of a financial cliff. Among other things, the gift was spent on the erection of a $21.5 million building that some have called the “poetry palace.”

Lilly had submitted her own poetry to the magazine and been rejected on a number of occasions but apparently did not take it personally. Of course, she was up against some serious competition, since the magazine has published T. S. Eliot, Carl Sandburg, Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens, among others. Lilly had made a number of previous donations, including providing an endowment for a prize named for her.
www.nonprofitquarterly.org/index.php?option=com_content&a...

Don't Pretend

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:30:58 -0700

swanksalot posted a photo:

Hubbard Street Street Art Annex.

Artist: nautilus

Actual title unknown.

Reads:
don’t pretend

you are under no responsibility

to care

but then don’t wonder why the world is as it is

Understand "Nothing" Profoundly

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:22:25 -0700

swanksalot posted a photo:

Actual title~~/artist~~ unknown. Hubbard Street, Fulton Market.

If you haven't seen The Seventh Seal in a while (or at all), here's the reference:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzz9WuUdfQM

That Night The Ocean Sounded Like Snow Falling

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:20:58 -0700

swanksalot posted a photo:

Actual ~~artist /~~ title unknown.

Hubbard Street somewhere, Fulton Market

19% better when viewed in Lightbox
www.flickr.com/photos/swanksalot/5589098248/lightbox/

Summer Rain is a Poem

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Mon, 31 May 2010 09:54:36 -0700

swanksalot posted a photo:

Developed in SwankoLab for iPhone using Jerry's Developer, Vinny's
CO34, and Zero

decluttr

A Line Drawn Taut

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:04:48 -0700

swanksalot posted a photo:

underpass, Ravenswood and Berteau (or nearby)

A line drawn taut
against a mast
will not waver
through a storm,
and all the gardens
growing greener
will not keep your (?)
feet from rooting.
A white sail
over black water
is where we come
to know our bodies.

Blank Verse

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:15:25 -0700

swanksalot posted a photo:

Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: Chunky
Flash: Off
Film: Pistil

Speaking in stranger's mouths

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:05:18 -0800

swanksalot posted a photo:

an old poem/image of mine, discovered

somewhat legible if you
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