Category: Cityscape
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Gaps | Hartline, WA | 2014 A space between objects has inexplicable allure. It represents opportunity, possibility or — for you poets — infinity. It sits surrounded, framed and isolated, and beckons us
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Prism | Wenatchee, WA | 2014 The vacant second floor offered quiet relief from the office’s downstairs hubbub. I liked to arrive just before sunrise. The day’s first rays entered through ceiling-high windows, bounced off panes of interior glass, and often ricocheted again from a couple of hanging mirrors. The effect was prismatic — the…
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Cut Lawn | East Wenatchee, WA | 2013 Sam thought his beret looked best when he wore it low over his right eye. Like an artist. It also blocked the morning glare while he made east-west cuts. His technique was
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Shadows | Wenatchee, WA | 2013 Waiting outside J.C. Penney’s, I watched leaf shadow creep eastward along a wall as the sun tip-toed west. This juncture of cosmic and earthbound (sun, tree, building) hinted that I, too, might
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Bleachers | East Wenatchee, WA | 2013 Solitude where crowds normally gather is a delicious experience. Main Street at 3 a.m. A cathedral on a Tuesday afternoon. Grandstands an hour after the game. In silence and stillness, details of a place emerge
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The Light | East Wenatchee, WA | 2013 My heart stopped for several minutes following a heart attack in 2004. People have often asked me if I moved toward the light or felt the Divine or was welcomed to heaven by smiling ancestors. But no, none of that. It was more of a comforting darkness…
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Explorers | Chelan , WA | 2013 They were there when I arrived at the library and, an hour later, had hardly moved. In rugged coats and beat-up boots, they sat in winter light sifting through what looked like books and maps — two stationary explorers (I imagined) prepping for an upcoming adventure. A reasonable…
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Waders | Soap Lake, WA | 2013 The high mineral content of Soap Lake’s healing waters attracts devotees from around the world. In particular, Ukrainians have embraced bathing in the buoyant basin. I was once walking the lake’s beach, when a Ukrainian kid with a bucket ran up and said, “I’ll mud you for five…
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Sink | Moses Lake, WA | 2013 About every six weeks I travel to Moses Lake, Washington, to stroll through the city’s Japanese garden, enjoy an art exhibit or two, and stare shamelessly into this hammered metal sink. It’s located in a public men’s room, but that has never stopped me from appropriating its coppery…
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