Art: That is my soul is my home (WIP) by Nikolas Karathanasis
DREAM WIND
The place where we ache to go again.
-“Don Draper”-
It begins by dreaming itself into form, ripple and wave,
soft swell and breaker, whatever source it springs from,
desolate lover’s plaint, shimmery scorched alluvial bed,
gnarly surfer Jersey shore pipeline, Margate to Manahatta,
so small a thing this summer wind shrouding hollyhock mallow,
shedding willow fuzz abroad, passing politely, first, as mist
over bottomland poplar and sycamore, upland stone-sere conifer,
ascending as thick fog to meet mountain peak and crest
in dense, blind florets as unclear as life itself, we lumpen,
motely, spirit-dreaming proles waiting to bliss highs and lows
of living in the Not Knowing, waiting to Only Connect! be taken
to a place on every summer breath where we know we are loved,
where, when night turns blue and starlit, all else just fine dust filaments.
About the author:
G Timothy Gordon‘s seventh book, DREAM WIND, is now under review, FROM FALLING published Autumn 2017 (Spirit-of-the-Ram P). Work appears in AGNI, CINCINNATI POETRY R, KANSAS Q, LOUISVILLE R, MISSISSIPPI R, NEW YORK Q, RHINO, SONORA R, TEXAS OBSERVER; TEXAS LITERARY R, & BASEBALL BARD, among others. EVERYTHING SPEAKING CHINESE received the SunStone P Poetry Prize (AZ). Recognitions include NEA & NEH Fellowships and nominations for Pushcarts and The NEA Western States’ Book Awards. He divides professional and personal lives among Asia, the Desert/Mountain Southwest, and Maine.
Art: That is my soul is my home (WIP) by Nikolas Karathanasis, @nikolas_k_photography
In the artist’s words:
I am Nikolas Karathanasis, living in Athens, Greece. My introduction to photography began several years ago. I associate my work with black and white film through experiment and research; the smell of chemicals, the joy & excitement of composition. Within the past years, I work with digital photography. I have participated in several exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
Facts, pictures of everyday life, ideas, people and their passions, whatever moves in the space of exaggeration. All this is inspirational to me. Photography, as I see it, means communication with the world and this is my motivation. I use many photographic techniques and skills to frame daily scenes and to manipulate the light so to build a bridge of communication with people, in a subtle way. This becomes a vessel for sharing ideas, thoughts and feelings. In so, we are extracted from loneliness, and create a humane environment. New perspectives for the mind to walk on, think, wonder.
Facebook:
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Blog:
http://nikokarathanassis.blogspot.gr/