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July 31, 2003
undercover
July 30, 2003
her woes are grand and insignificant, and, to preserve their inwardness, she slides them under domes of devastating brightness. their colour deflects doubt; their curves ensure a smooth surrendering slide to acceptance.
Posted by lynn at 08:43 PM
cut 'em out, ride 'em in
July 28, 2003
friday evening, at our house, way back when, meant: "rawhide", preceded by "the ed sullivan show". i remember fanatically attempting to capture the magic of the byrds' "mr. tambourine man" on slide film. i adored david crosby. even then.
Posted by lynn at 08:46 PM
scattered showers
July 27, 2003
Posted by lynn at 05:50 PM
water and wind
granted: this is almost cliché. every souvenir store here has baskets strategically full - (delft blue is the best-seller) and it would be easy to overlook the ingeniousness of the whole mechanism*. the windmills of holland are picturesque and photogenic, but above all they are triumphs in technology. in the past, i understand - and appreciate - they saved us from disappearing into the wide atlantic, and they gave us, decade upon decade, our daily bread.
Posted by lynn at 09:16 PM
unabashedly tart
July 23, 2003
he twists the lock from his bicycle. he can hear jannie, below, bustling about, preparing herself as usual: shaking her sumptuousness into latex and laces, smudging aging lips and cheeks, coaxing her blondness into coquetry, and, finally, scraping her velvet chair into position.
Posted by lynn at 02:46 PM
why then oh why
school's out, and thousands of tiny artists have been let loose onto the sidewalks of amsterdam. i thought my day had been made - the sunshine and all - but the added bonus of an enthousiastic rainbow made it incomparable.
Posted by lynn at 09:25 PM
daubed
July 22, 2003
galleries glow outward, and even simple folding chairs do double duty as artists' palettes: amsterdam, in the summer becomes, thankfully, a city of colour.
Posted by lynn at 08:37 PM
dylan
July 19, 2003
do not go gentle into that good night, (dylan thomas, 1951, "do not go gentle into that good night")
Posted by stephen at 07:43 PM
mirror mirror on the wall
this is me. this is my identity*, if only for today: one never knows who one will be on the morrow.
Posted by lynn at 09:28 PM
hieperdepiephoera
July 17, 2003
this is my daughter, as a pre-schooler, and as the young woman she is today. it's her birthday: 21 whole years old. time has flown. i am proud. i wish she were here.
Posted by lynn at 12:00 AM
forward ho
to whom it may concern;
Posted by lynn at 07:48 PM
opportunity, knocked
"but you PROMISED.
Posted by lynn at 06:24 PM
garlanded
July 12, 2003
Posted by lynn at 09:52 AM
symphony of summer sidewalks
July 11, 2003
at one point, deep into the dusk, and following yet another anecdote-of-anecdotes, he scraped his chair closer and said:
Posted by lynn at 06:53 PM
round and round
the afternoon sun stifles. delicate shadows pirouette along the stone and brick toward the sidewalk. a graceful silence circles between the gables and the gradual water.
Posted by lynn at 08:41 PM
horsepower
July 09, 2003
he breathes hotly into his designer cuff and caresses the indigo gloss. this is his vehicle: all sleek symmetry*, elegant, low-slung, purring, passionate... like himself, if he does say so himself. and he does... constantly.
Posted by lynn at 07:34 PM
triple take
July 07, 2003
stretching my legs after dinner – once upon a recovered summer evening - i happened across a graceful bridge in the neighbourhood of the reguliersgracht, and saw, a glance waterwards, a half-submerged rowboat absolutely overflowing with debris of every kind. it brought to mind one of the guided canal-boat tours: “on your right, ladies and gentleman, a houseboat teeming with felines and radiating absolute squalor. please don’t breathe too deeply.”
Posted by lynn at 06:09 PM
ring for service
July 06, 2003
it's difficult to picture amsterdam's canal belt without traffic queues and the opstapper (that would be me enjoying the bouncy ride) and wheel clamps.
Posted by lynn at 11:13 PM
over the zuiderzee
July 04, 2003
i realise that this is the second pair of clogs since the beginning of may, and i do apologise. but i just returned from a family weekend in friesland - the "true north" of the netherlands - and, although the countryside and the villages were spectacularly picturesque, the sky stayed a shallow and slightly depressing parchment-white the whole time. under such circumstances, i can't resist focussing my attention, and my camera, on things that radiate colour and brightness all on their very vibrant own.
Posted by lynn at 09:53 PM
tie and tails
he has survived a dozen of his peers, and awaits the end of his days elegantly by the tall window overlooking the avenue. he finds comfort in his simple and steady routine, and satisfaction in the solitude* that allows him his significant memories and his insignificant regrets.
Posted by lynn at 11:24 AM
froglets
July 02, 2003
it's an observation that's often made: when one has spent most of one's adult years in a "foreign" country, one does some things for the first time in a non-english-language environment. i gave birth, for instance, here in holland, and could not for the life of me tell my mother how the delivery had progressed: i simply did not know the english words.
Posted by lynn at 11:02 AM
if you love me sweet..
Posted by lynn at 09:17 PM
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