Laura Gilpin

I thought of you as my Mountaintop;

 Thought of You as my peak.

 Thought of you as Everything,

I had But couldn’t keep.

Linger on, Your pale blue eyes.

If I could make the world as Pure

And Strange as what I see,

I’d put you In the mirror

I put in front of Me.

Linger On, Your Pale Blue Eyes.

Laura Gilpin Photographs:  

Upper, Laura and Turkeys, Autochrome, ca. 1913-15;  

Lower, The Moon of the Red Gods, 1922.

Pale Blue Eyes: Velvet Underground (Link)

Herakleitos Fragment 24 (History Is)

 

History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

Trans. Guy Davenport, Herakleitos and Diogenes. San Francisco, Grey Fox Press, 1976.