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Category: U.K.

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

Bronze Age

Migratory as an eel, unstable as molten metal wavering between stone and water, I dreamed myself adrift in a forest of the dead, one more leaf returned to the forge of life, green blade that does not crumble, however fallen, in any autumn that we know.

By Dave Bontain artifacts, built environment, landscape, U.K., videosAugust 2, 201749 WordsLeave a comment

bronze Gandhi

Sideways view of the Gandhi memorial in London with a big tree in the background.

patina sending tendrils
toward the earth

By Dave Bontain artifacts, built environment, haiku, U.K.July 26, 2017July 26, 20176 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

What is it that we are missing

Two identical signs, with a gap between them, showing a graphic of walking feet and urging people to report anything unusual.

between footfalls, in a caught breath? What tic or tick of rhetoric makes the ground so unsolid wherever we are told we must mind the gap?

By Dave Bontain artifacts, built environment, epigrams and conundrums, U.K.July 18, 201726 WordsLeave a comment

Christmas in July

A pile of dead Christmas trees.

the half-dozen hues
of dead needles

By Dave Bontain built environment, U.K.July 17, 20176 WordsLeave a 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

Threat levels us:

London street sign with an anti-Teresa May sign that reads, I am a threat

targets of surveillance, casualties of public sector cuts, persons of interest to advertisers and politicians.

By Dave Bontain built environment, epigrams and conundrums, U.K.May 27, 201715 Words2 Comments

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

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