A door just opened on a street

Caitlin Legault posed for me several times not too long ago. Her face was a complete enigma. I could never guess what she was thinking and I would have certainly lost all my clothes to her if we had played poker. There is something about her face in which the word face is not the adequate word to define it. Perhaps using the French visage might apply.

We were in my dusty garage at the old Athlone house when she suggested she do what you see here. The light challenged my 35mm colour negative film’s ability to handle extreme contrast, But I like the photograph.

The photograph beckons me to get out of my tiny Kits studio and use light (in that other century it was called available light and it meant that you used it without amending it with an extraneous light you might bring along.

A door just opened on a street--

I, lost, was passing by--

An instant's width of warmth disclosed

And wealth, and company.

The door as sudden shut, and I,

I, lost, was passing by,--

Lost doubly, but by contrast most,

Enlightening misery.

Emily Dickinson

More Emily Dickinson
 
Amber slips away
Sleep
When August burning low
Pink Small and punctual
A slash of blue
I cannot dance upon my toes
Ah little rose
For hold them, blue to blue

The colour of the grave is green
Its temple stands, alway,

The Woman in white 

 Her Grace is not all she has  

To know if any human eyes were near
Linda Melsted - the music of the violin does not emerge alone
The Charm invests her face
A sepal, a petal and a thorn
The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman
T were blessed to have seen
There is no frigate like a book
I pay in satin cash

Emily Dickinson's White Dress & a Hunter of Lost Souls

El vestido blanco - The White Dress
Water makes many beds
 The viola da gamba
 But sequence ravelled out of reach
 A parasol is the umbrella's daughter
 Without the power to die
 Lessons on the piny
Ample make this bed
How happy is the little stone

 Sleep is supposed to be
The shutting of the eye
I dwell in possibility
when Sappho was a living girl
In a library
 A light exists in spring
The lady dare not lift her veil
 I took my power in my hand
 I find my feet have further goals
 I cannot dance upon my toes
The Music of the Violin does not emerge alone
Red Blaze 
He touched me, so I live to know
Rear Window- The Entering Takes Away
Said Death to Passion
 We Wear the Mask That Grins And Lies
It was not death for I stood alone
The Music in the Violin Does Not Emerge Alone
I tend my flowers for thee
Lavinia Norcross Dickinson
Pray gather me anemone! 
Ample make her bed
His caravan of red 
Me-come! My dazzled face  
Develops pearl and weed
But peers beyond her mesh
Surgeons must be very careful
Water is taught by thirst
I could not prove that years had feet
April played her fiddle
A violin in Baize replaced
I think the longest hour
The spirit lasts
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