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Miami Beach, Florida

Chromogenic Colour Print 1978 MoMA NY Photographer – Jerome Liebling (1924-2011) a really ordinary snap of an extrordinarily beautiful print, stretching way beyond the frame. Vale Jerome.

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A Sail

It’s long gone, that carry on from December. It is no matter, if you remember mulled paper bagged wine and too much bedside whiskey. I will roll my heart up, I will roll my heart up in my sleeve. Now … Continue reading

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Marine Parks in Australia – Minister to make decision

Australia’s Environment Minister Tony Burke is expected to announce the boundaries of protected commonwealth waters in June. Some coalition MPs and commercial fishermen fear jobs will be lost. But author Tim Winton says linking marine parks is broadly popular. Hear … Continue reading

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Dredging the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park?

If mining companies get their way, there will be a coal port within the Australian Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area that would be larger than any other coal export facility on the planet. Imagine the burden upon the Great … Continue reading

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A Persian Lesson – 8

We might have to medicate You. In the ocean A lot goes on beneath your eyes. Listen, They have clinics there too For the insane Who persist in saying things like: “I am independent from the Sea, God is not … Continue reading

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A Persian Lesson – 7

I sail to you in the ocean of my dreams To a far away distant place -Amjid Yaseen * * (in memorium – dear Maurice Sendak who pointed to how the ocean tumbles by, and how you can sail through … Continue reading

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A Persian Lesson – 6

I will rouse you from your sleep, you who have given yourself up to recitation, who have taken the study of the Qur’an as a practice, who have seized upon some of its outward meanings and sentences. How long will … Continue reading

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A Persian Lesson – 5

I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: How are you? I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: What is God? If you think that Truth can be known From words, If you think that the Sun … Continue reading

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A Persian Lesson – 4

I taste what you taste. I know the kind of lyrics your Soul most likes. I know which sounds will become Resplendent in your mind and bring such pleasure Your feet will jump and whirl. When anything touches or enters … Continue reading

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A Persian Lesson – 3

The cosmos is like a net thrown into the sea, unable to make that in which is its own.  Already the sea is spread out, and the net spreads with it as far as it can, for no one of … Continue reading

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