“Leaning. a little to the left”
“St. Bridget’s steeple leaning a little to the left.”
The Harlem Branch Y
As in Langston Hughes’s “Theme for English B.”
Grey day with squirrel
I thought of lines from William Carlos Williams: “The descent beckons / as the ascent beckoned.” This squirrel was taking its time about heeding the beck.
A new Dickinson daguerreotype?
“Should the new image stand up to scrutiny and verification, it will become only the second existing photographic likeness of the reclusive Amherst poet.”
Rudy Burckhardt and Edwin Denby, CH2-5097
The photographer Rudy Burckhardt and the dance critic and poet Edwin Denby, in the 1940 New York City telephone directory.
Jimmy Durante, Beat poet
Jimmy Durante and Peter Lawford do a beatnik routine, via Life magazine