blue data muse

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words, haiku and images all photos by blue data muse unless otherwise credited justice : peace : poetry : art : night

Text “as some other measure / of time pressed its thumbs / into me” in pink superimposed over a color photograph of a spiderweb in sunlight against a background of brown wood
Text “can't see the trees / for the leaves, / the bones / for the skin” in white superimposed over a color photograph of a bare, pruned tree in front of a leafy, full tree
Text “a voice / with only the moon / inside” in white superimposed over a color photograph of the full moon at dusk over telephone poles and trees
Text “join me in the where-beneath, / the other-under afterworld” in pink-to-yellow gradient on a green background, superimposed over a color photo of a portion of a mushroom fairy ring in suburban grass
Text “cloud malaise : particular delirium / in gauze, inhaled whole” in peach on a green background, superimposed over a color photo of trees against a light orange sky
Text “sometimes, art was what someone else brought to completion” superimposed over a color photograph of the side of a building with distorted reflections in rectangles of glass
Text “the songs only start / when the drums / when the drums” in red superimposed over a color photograph of a sculpture of silver-colored cylinders
Text “my names for my fair lady cat: / baby girl / miss baby cat / miss kitty girl / miss princess kitty / princess sharkbite” superimposed over a color photograph of the cat with closed eyes between two curtains
Text “never enough moon / for those poets” superimposed over a color photograph of the moon in an ash-rose-colored sky
Text “we were running / from the dead-leaf jaw of time” superimposed over a color photograph of wilting white roses
Text "fireflies were the stars / that made it to earth” superimposed over two layered color photographs yellow flowers and foliage
Text "afternoon cartomancy / red hearts on green grass” superimposed over an out-of-focus color photograph of the ten of hearts card lodged in some grass
Text "the lines were abstract / we could give them our own meaning” on a lime green background, superimposed over a color photograph of crystals hanging from a greenhouse roof
Text "moon eye" superimposed over a color photograph of the moon shining through a tree with branches framing it like an eye
Text "blotch, swollen / water drops on ink / lost words" superimposed over a color photograph of raindrops on a new york city taxi window obscuring a carved lintel on a brick building
Text "if you were a dancer / whose feet / did not leave / the ground" superimposed over a color photograph of rows of short, round, topiaried bushes
Text "at the last remaining art museum / you remember a shade of green / a palimpsest of toxins (after Zaina Alsous)" superimposed over a color photograph of a detail of the painting "Oedipus and the Sphinx” by Gustave Moreau (1864) showing his green cloak pierced by his spear
Text "rain panic / dark-boned skyline / blue ghosts paint the fog" superimposed over a color photograph of skyscrapers at night with orange and blue lights amplified by fog
Blue text "music is a drug / you take in the ear" superimposed over a pink-filtered color photograph of azaleas
Text "boy, gone years ago / even my skin forgets / the scar of your claw" superimposed over a blurred color photograph of a lounging cat’s nose, mouth and white forepaws
Text "the moon / is a lazy eye / that drags the tide" superimposed over a color photograph of sand, ocean and sky
Text "google ngram says / we write sacred less often / in this century" superimposed over a color photograph of tropical plants on a pond
Text "pink candy pieces / sticky peach sparkle polish / summer sister toes" superimposed over a pink-filtered photograph of two women’s feet with painted toenails
Text "for Alma— / lunar rendezvous / homage to "Lunar Rendezvous—Circle of Flowers" by Alma Thomas, 1969" superimposed over a color photograph of a ferris wheel against an absolutely black sky
Text "we followed a rapid downward skew / a fold into absence" superimposed over a color photograph of a wall vase of wilting alstroemeria flowers
Text "I could not touch the clouds in the photograph, / so I share the sky as an object lesson. / after Zaina Alsous" superimposed over a color photograph of the sunset on clouds
Text "poet in amber / rhythm tangled in honey / quiet as a sphinx" superimposed over an abstracted photograph of an amber-colored landscape
Text "Each flame can taste / what's burning" superimposed over a color photograph of crape myrtle bark
text "the moon is a pill / you took before sleeping" superimposed on a color photograph of a blurry supermoon seen through tree branches
Text "I am done with burning / says the Sun, / lonely for travelers" superimposed over a color photograph of "Le Rêve du Poète" (The Poet's Dream) monument in shade, Paris
Text "I write / so you can hear me fall / in the forest" superimposed on color photograph of fallen tree, rotated 90 degrees
Text "Why should the machine write for you / Peeling the orange enhances / the pleasure of eating" superimposed over image: Sumerian cuneiform, Louvre Museum