Noir

Noir

The photo depicts 

The past

A time when words flowed

Like a river into endless

Streams

Across great chasms

Mind-bending

Alleys.

Ever forward

Relentlessly pushing boundaries

Breaking norms

Exploding into infinity.

Kind of like ejaculation.

Only the waterfall

Ran dry for a time

And the people had to

Find another source

Were forced to improvise

Re-engineer

What had already been provided

By our Maker.

And where is that Maker now?

Is he a devil hidden in detail?

Or a stern parent insisting we toe the line

Perhaps the Maker resides in each of us

Within our unique purpose

Maybe, we are the world.

But the world is dying.

Discernment helps

Patience

Listening too

In the Noir days, we had filters.

Remember filters?  

And one critical lesson at a time.

Cornelia DeDona 3-24-2020

Remembering Pauline

How do you say goodbye
recall the fragile faith 
in the eyes of a starfish
before tossed ashore by the careless surf?

Or crack the elegiac code without her light

       She, the zealous muse that lifted you past the stars.

ridge & TOWER at Roost Art Gallery in New Paltz

Come see my photos this month at Roost Gallery in New Paltz to benefit The New Paltz Amphitheater and NPASA- New Paltz Art in the Schools Association. Sunrise on the Ridge is published in the 2020 Kingston Calendar, copies are available at The Art Society Of Kingston.

Make The Journey

My photo, Autumn Cliffs, taken on a recent hike is in the 

                      2019 Mohonk Preserve Calendar.

Kaleidoscope

Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum