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Category: people

I have nothing against people. There just aren’t too many of them in my neighborhood.

I dreamed a giant silk moth fluttered into a museum

Carnival street scene of dancers dressed in elaborate feather headdresses while a man in the foreground gazes at the sky.

and joined its life-like relatives on the wall.

By Dave Bontain built environment, epigrams and conundrums, people, U.K.September 22, 20178 WordsLeave a comment

I place myself

Plastic model of an idealized human body showing lines of qi and acupressure points

on the Underground map uneasily, wondering how such ideal points and lines can add up to anything resembling the surface.

By Dave Bontain artifacts, built environment, epigrams and conundrums, people, U.K.August 24, 201720 WordsLeave a comment

Do the inhabitants of the past ever tire

Chess pieces from the famous Lewis set in the British Museum appear to regard the people on the other side of the glass with alarm and hostility.

of our clueless questions and our rapacious gaze?

By Dave Bontain artifacts, epigrams and conundrums, indoors, people, U.K.July 25, 20178 Words1 Comment

cloudy Sabbath

A large table covered with different varieties of heirloom tomatoes.

all eyes are on the bright
heirloom tomatoes

By Dave Bontain built environment, haiku, people, U.K.July 16, 20178 WordsLeave a comment

Purely cosmetic.

You don’t actually have to be able to see at all!

By Dave Bontain people, sky, U.K., videosMay 27, 201714 WordsLeave a comment

Audubon walk

A hand holding a large bird's foot, with one person's boot and another person's hand visible in the background.

admiring a pheasant’s
dismembered foot

By Dave Bontain critters, haiku, meadow, people, valleyFebruary 19, 20175 WordsLeave a comment

that faint overlay

Close-up of my face as I see it reflected when I peer myopically at photos on the cellphone.

on every cellphone photo—
my own face

By Dave Bontain haiku, peopleJanuary 16, 20177 WordsLeave a comment

January moon

we startle
at each other’s faces

By Dave Bontain forest, haiku, peopleJanuary 2, 2011December 28, 20166 Words8 Comments

fresh paint

house painter with red-spotted purple butterfly

a butterfly lands on the ladder
to have a taste

By Dave Bontain built environment, critters, haiku, peopleAugust 16, 2010December 28, 201610 Words2 Comments

a line of balloons

balloons on the main mall of Penn State's University Park campus

beside the campus elms
bobbing drunkenly

By Dave Bontain built environment, haiku, people, townApril 11, 2008December 28, 20166 WordsLeave a comment

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