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he knows something you don't - 4/08
2008-06-10 11:44:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Jonathan Bricklin - 4/08, originally uploaded by levari.

The Tight Rope Walker - 6/08
2008-06-08 11:25:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The Tight Rope Walker - 6/08, originally uploaded by levari.

Dream (Bonnie and Clyde)
2008-06-05 11:15:00
We were in that hotel? by the ocean.? ?You and I in that bed? in that hotel room; the world outside behind? the curtains dipping in the late afternoon ?breeze.?You buzzed about ?with your things ?to do list, your book with ?all the places of interest, as if we could still pretend we had all the time in the world. ??I looked up at ?the tiled ceilings? so high, ?the ancient frescoes ?faded? and chipped so elegantly, you the countess of the crumbling villa of my mind.? ?And somehow we made it so it did not matter ?that they knew? where we were. ??It did not matter ?that they were ?out to get ?us and ?we knew they would ?sooner rather ?than later. ??It did not matter ?that when they came for us ?it would be forever ?this time; we both knew we had put off the inevitable for as long as we could, passed through all the boundaries, our bodies together and apart, hand in hand hurdling head first through all the fears.The doorbell chimed as the alarm rang out, and you, on cue, innocently ...
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Can I Get An Encore? - 3/08
2008-06-03 10:27:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Encore - 3/08, originally uploaded by levari.

'Star Valley' On A Sunny Day
2008-06-01 23:29:00
To give account to none, to be one's ownvassal and lord, to please oneself alone,to bend neither one's neck, nor inner schemes,nor conscience to obtain some things that seems power but is a flunkey's coat...~Pushkin
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Andrew - 12/07
2008-06-01 06:00:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Andrew - 12/07, originally uploaded by levari.

R.I.P. Holden Caulfield
2008-05-29 00:47:00
If you would have told me, when I was a young man,that one day I would tell you (without laughing) that I've learned more from all the compromises then any idealistic stand I could have ever taken, I would have called you a fucking liar and a phony, then taken a torch to the future me.That's what I would have said and done (back then.)-Los Angeles to Boston - 5/25/08
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Kitai, Los Angeles - 11/07
2008-05-26 11:31:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Kitai, Los Angeles - 11/07, originally uploaded by levari.

Dawn, Frigiliana
2008-05-24 00:26:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Dawn , Frigiliana, originally uploaded by levari.

Portrait of Ricky On The Roof Of The Rossmore - 5/18
2008-05-20 10:31:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Ricky , Roof Of The Rossmore - 5/18, originally uploaded by levari.
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Jim Bianco - Max Mamikunian - 12/07
2008-05-19 19:41:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Jim Bianco - Max Mamikunian - 12/07, originally uploaded by levari.

My Endless Love of The Burlesque
2008-05-18 07:57:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } My Endless Love of The Burlesque, originally uploaded by levari.

"Everybody gets corrupted...
2008-05-15 11:32:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } "Everyone gets corrupted...", originally uploaded by levari. ...you have to have a little faith in people."
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Portrait of A Bookstore Owner (The Dying Breed) - 4/08
2008-05-14 01:03:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Portrait of A Bookstore Owner - 4/08, originally uploaded by levari.
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Grandmom - Beatrice Farber - 1940
2008-05-10 22:58:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Grandmom - Beatrice Farber - 1940, originally uploaded by levari. To All The Lionesses all over the world,Happy Mother's Day.

Ode To Irony
2008-05-09 11:43:00
our shield,our laughter, our camouflage,our public success,our hidden tears, our shining mask,our deepest fears,our passionate fatalism,our sophisticated cynicism,our war without peace,our acceptance no grief,our buy andour sell,(write it!)our lie.-4/07
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3/06
2008-05-07 09:07:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 3/06, originally uploaded by levari.

When My Desk Got Away From Me...
2008-05-05 09:43:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } When My Desk Got Away From Me..., originally uploaded by levari.

Brattleboro Exchange
2008-05-01 09:44:00
You had dreamsbut they slipped awayso quietly that we failed to noticeuntil we had stackedthem up in boxes.Standing now,years later,along these tracks,sun beaming down,through the thin, blue air,black birds overhead,two of them,slicing souththrough thenorth wind,then landing on theflashing crossing lightto pick and clean each other'swings.The train pulls in.The birds scatter.I board for youto take us further.Sitting with my back facing front,wheels churning,rust stained snow,past lakes outlined in white,past abandoned houses,and houses that should be,and all New England's playgroundsburied in the ancient ice;where have you been, where once was your home?What am I looking for?Where you have been,where once was your home.Always following your tracks,that is all I ever did,Waiting for our eyes to whisper to me:where you have gone,where once was our home?A long time agowe,the deepest sleep beneath,this always onwards,though we only ever sit facing backwards,always will be my way home...
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Portrait of My Father - 3/08
2008-04-29 08:56:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Portrait of My Father - 3/08, originally uploaded by levari.

Fate
2008-04-26 10:24:00
"When the Gods wish to punish you, they answer your prayers..."~African Proverb née Isak Dineson (attributed)
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San Gabriel Foothills - January, 2004
2008-04-25 19:44:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } San Gabriel Foothills - January , 2004, originally uploaded by levari.

Matisse - The Piano Lesson
2008-04-24 06:53:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Matisse - The Piano Lesson , originally uploaded by levari. My favorite painting...ever.

The Wind Storm - 3/08
2008-04-22 09:23:00
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Poet Laureate of The Blogosphere 2008
2008-04-21 23:04:00
The good people over at Blogging Poet were kind enough to nominate me for the Poet Laureate of the Internet award they give out every year. I'm very honored, however I can only say this: PLEASE DON'T VOTE FOR ME.There are so many other poets, men and women who live, die and eat poetry every day as teachers, as writers, as readers and they are far more deserving of this award then I could ever be. The past winners, Ron Silliman, Jilly Dybka and Amy King are poets in the finest and realest sense of the word who have devoted their life to the art and the craft of poetry, and all that this devotion means. They live it every day.Fortunately, I do many, many things for work and pleasure, and I've been able to make a living as a film writer for the last couple years. I can't tell you how grateful I am that I have been lucky enough to do this. When I was younger, no, but as I get older I see how truly rare it is to be able to work in a craft whose possibilities, given the right ci...
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The Golden Gun
2008-04-20 11:51:00
"Some people's photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that's fine. But that's not why I do them. I'm a gun for hire."~Helmut Newton
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The Neo Gilded Age - Biltmore Hotel - 3/08
2008-04-17 13:41:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The Neo Gilded Age - Biltmore Hotel - 3/08, originally uploaded by levari.

Versailles
2008-04-16 08:57:00
Waking mind refusing to let its guard down.Clenched body lying here, following its own orders.All the things you did not do today.All the gestures thought about but never made.All the whispers you thought you heard, but could never quite make out.Dreams of untwisted lands twisted.Then the real desires comeas if they were never lost and never could be:family,life into old age,the forest after rain...grasstreesabookahouseawarmbedmygra ndfatherwrappedinaredwoolblanketfishingth eriverandunhookingthesunniesformetothrowb ackin...Finally, the sun peaks up and through the curtainsto see if I'm all right.Then it tells me:You are,so go to sleep now.Hollywood - 1/07
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Tera - 10/07 -The Short Stop, Silver Lake
2008-04-15 21:57:00
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These Days
2008-04-14 03:41:00
"Both in and out ofthe game, and watching and wonderingat it..."~Walt Whitman
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