demolition - the fleeting world; bubbles in a stream

September 22, 2023 What has been left

No feet but a cold wind for these shoes

“Life in her creaking shoes
Goes, and more formal grows,
A round of calls and cues:
Love blows as the wind blows.”

(W.E. Henley no title, A book of verses)
Chaudfontaine (B)

August 30, 2023 What has been left

We have deleted the first floor

“Here is the ancient floor,
Footworn and hollowed and thin,
Here was the former door
Where the dead feet walked in.”

(Th. Hardy in The self-unseen”)
Liège (B)

May 21, 2023 What has been left

The Headless Light

“Light, oh where is the light?
Kindle it with the burning fire of desire!
There is the lamp but never a flicker of a flame –
is such thy fate, my heart? “

( Rabindranath Tagore in Gitanjali no. 27)
Seraing (B)

April 6, 2023 Street scenes - garages and parking places

This garage sale certainly didn’t bring in much money

“The buying power of the proletariat’s gone down
Money’s getting shallow and weak
The place I love best is a sweet memory
It’s a new path that we trod
They say low wages are a reality
If we want to compete abroad”

(Bob Dylan in Workingman’s blues #2)
Liège (B)

January 18, 2023 Transport

Where the track lost its bridge

“The trail is dusty
And my road it might be rough
But the better roads are waiting
And boys it ain’t far off”

(Bob Dylan in Paths of victory)
Liège (B)

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No feet but a cold wind for these shoes

We have deleted the first floor

The Headless Light

This garage sale certainly didn’t bring in much money

Where the track lost its bridge