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01-JUN-2008

IMG_2371.jpg

Foxglove

Canon EOS 40D
1/125s f/8.0 at 180.0mm iso200 full exif

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John Small Photography23-Aug-2008 19:43
The Politics of Naming
By LG Burroughs

My stepdad takes photographs
that should be paintings.
I need a layer of oils

between my eye and their naked
perfection. In particular the photos
of my mother's garden.

The delicate eggplant and eggshell
of the foxglove's bells,
the grains of pollen leaping

out onto the iris. They leave
her touch, his gaze too bare.
Since his parents died he is a planet

with nothing to orbit. I know
when he and she go I will spin
out into the galaxy, freeze

without my suns and shatter.
I've always fancied men who wear hats
and I'd like to call him as I love him:

Brahms Rhapsody in G Minor -
pity that stepdad will have to do.
John Small Photography23-Aug-2008 16:16
Lindsay, your mother, the gardner's alter ego
http://www.pbase.com/jtsmall/image/98043564
Lindsay 23-Aug-2008 04:30
These are the foxgloves I was referencing in your poem! Love this photo!
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