“Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.”
―
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
In A Boy’s Skin
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Love’s Calm Unwavering Flame
“You wake from dreams of doom and–for a moment–you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love’s calm unwavering flame in the half-light of an early dawn.”
― Markings
Paths, Steinunn Thorarinsdottir, Arts District, Dallas, Texas
We Are Going To Cross It
“Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it.”
― After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
Cable Anchors, Mockingbird Pedestrian Bridge, Dallas, Texas
Cutglass and Cherry Blossoms
“But you’re out of another world old kid … You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cutglass and cherry blossoms.”
―
Downtown Dallas, Texas
Rust Never Sleeps
The king is gone
But he’s not forgotten
This is the story
Of a Johnny Rotten
It’s better to burn out
Than it is to rust
The king is gone
But he’s not forgotten.—-Neil Young, My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
Grapevine, Texas
The Dreams Of Spirits, Dwelling In the Distant Spheres
“I think our lives are surely but the dreams
Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres,
Who as we die, do one by one awake.”
― Poppies and Mandragora
Traffic Barriers, Fair Park, Dallas, Texas
Grow Wings As Ministering Angels
“The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.”
― The Awakening
Dallas, Texas
The Dawn Remaking the World
“Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
A duck at dawn, Bachman Lake, Dallas, Texas
Explicit In This Colliding Metal
“He dreamed of ambassadorial limousines crashing into jack-knifing butane tankers, of taxis filled with celebrating children colliding head-on below the bright display windows of deserted supermarkets. He dreamed of alienated brothers and sisters, by chance meeting each other on collision courses on the access roads of petrochemical plants, their unconscious incest made explicit in this colliding metal, in the heamorrhages of their brain tissue flowering beneath the aluminized compression chambers and reactions vessels.”
― Crash
LBJ Freeway and TI Boulevard, Dallas, Texas
Enliven and Support Well-Located Parks
“The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity. ”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Klyde Warren Park, Dallas, Texas
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