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In stillness I feel myself slipping away

To the person I don´t want to be.

The centre of my own perception at all times.

Raven soothes this misery

my head wrapped in slippery black silk.

Rene Magritte with a flower of fabric on my face.

Taxes will kill me tough.

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This is one of my favourite poems by Peter Redgrove. It was published in "From the Virgil Caverns".

For me personally, the text combines a simple observation of the similarities of a lighthouse and a lawn sprinkler and a greater meaning about the circular motion of change. Light and soft mist cross paths in the silence under the round moon. I love the simple and precise language that describes this mundane scenario in great detail. Modern and ancient technology also collide here, the lighthouse and the lawn sprinkler both sending out beams and water droplets out in the night air. I feel at ease and calm when reading this poem.

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I drew this while listening to a Sex-and-the-City recap-podcast!

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Allein was tut´s, wenn mit der Zeit

Sich ändert die Gestalt?

Die Fähigkeit zu Lust und Leid

Vergeht wohl nicht so bald.

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I wrote this letter to remind myself the reasons I'm alive I got to reason number five With my pen, I wrote on and I tried To find words that described all the times I caught myself and realised, there are good things just ahead of me But right now, it gets hard to believe That I know that I'm safe when I leave

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I shot this picture with my iPhone camera on the Geiser Berg near Ketten on November 25th 2023 while on a walk. You can see the hills behind Walkes are shrouded in cloudy fog. It just started to snow.