Dallas
Sunset
American White Pelicans
(with Am. Coot in background)
Bonus Photo (note: closer to home than above)
To the Lighthouse (V.W.)
Somewhere Else (SE) constitutes a removal of oneself from fixed behavior chains, thought patterns, and/or emotional states. SE does not necessitate a change in physical place, although such a change can certainly strike flame to tinder.
(Photos taken with crappy cell phone camera. Pelican photo taken through binocular lens.)
Posted by sean on November 19, 2013
https://sd-stewart.com/2013/11/19/somewhere-else-3/
With the year’s first sighting of cigar-smoking man (scroll to the bottom of that page for full enlightenment), we solemnly herald the official arrival of the so-called warm season (so-called by me, that is). Cigar-smoking man (or cigar-smoking guy, as he is also sometimes known) appears to be growing a beard. He was not in the company of his lady friend. I wonder if they are still an item, as they say (the other, more generic they, that is).
Warm season brings a slow shedding of clothing. An increase in flesh exposed to the sun’s rays. Perhaps even corporate nudity. Certainly tourists. And what I fear most of all: mosquito death squads. It’s all too much.
What will I write about this warm season without sounding highly repetitive.
Wait, don’t read those other posts…it will all soon become painfully familiar.
Posted by sean on April 8, 2013
https://sd-stewart.com/2013/04/08/spring-sprang-sprung/
But it stopped the breath in his breast, everything in him turned into a vague trembling, all his senses were aflame, and everything before him was covered with a sort of mist—
Nikolai Gogol, “Nevsky Prospect”
fragment 10
Stay still now
in the mist
and watch this tree
inch upwards
as your hands
grow cold
and time
leaches light
from the sky.
Posted by sean on January 11, 2013
https://sd-stewart.com/2013/01/11/piskarevs-mist/
Light Dark Light Dark Light Dark Light Dark Light Dark Light Dark Light Dark
Light Light Light Light Light Light Light
Dark Dark Dark Dark Dark Dark Dark
LIGHT
DARK
DARK
LIGHT
[narrator leaves house, unpacks moon-viewing instrument]
LIGHT LIGHT LIGHT LIGHT
[the ‘light’ from the moon is false — it is a reflection of the sun]
DARK DARK DARK DARK
[narrator adjusts focus, lets in more light]
LIGHT dark light
LIGHt dark lighT
LIGht dark ligHT
LIght dark liGHT
Light dark lIGHT
light dark LIGHT
[narrator goes inside, observes black ring around eye, laughs bitterly]
DARK light DARK
[narrator watches solar eclipse on television, loses vision in one eye]
one eye: DARK DARK DARK DARK
other eye: LIGHT LIGHT LIGHT LIGHT
[other eye compensates, dilation lets in more light]
LIght DARk LIGht DArk LIGHt Dark = dark | LIGHT
[narrator freaks out at giant pupil peering back out of mirror]
LIGHt dARK
LIGht daRK
LIGHt dARK
LIGHT DARK
[narrator takes sedative, falls asleep]
D-A-R-K
[narrator sleeps for days, dreams about moon]
D–A–R–K l-i-g-h-t
[narrator stands on moon in dream, looks at sun, falls asleep in crater]
D_A_R_K
[narrator feels hot, wakes up on sun, quickly returns to sleep, wakes up on earth]
L_I_G_H_T
[narrator applies eye shadow, begins collecting shiny objects]
light light light light
[narrator sprouts bushy tail, gathers nesting material]
dark light dark light
[narrator curls up in ball, falls asleep in nest]
DARK DARK DARK DARK DARK DARK DARK
[narrator dreams about the sea]
LIGHT | DARK
[narrator wakes in forest, burrows deeper in nest, falls asleep again]
DARK | DARK
[narrator dreams of monks self-immolating, twitches in sleep]
L__I__G__H__T | dark
[narrator wakes, crawls out of nest, forages on forest floor]
L–I–G–H–T
[narrator lies on a rock, soaks up sunlight]
LIGHT LIGHT LIGHT LIGHT
[narrator leaves dark, enters light]
L____I____G____H____T
Posted by sean on November 28, 2012
https://sd-stewart.com/2012/11/28/light-dark/
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