On the Horizon

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© 2013, 2014 Rick Burnett Baker 

Photo by R. Baker taken in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia October 2013. 

Are We Art, Or Are We Artists?

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© 2013, 2014 Rick Burnett Baker 
Photo taken in Singapore by R. Baker, October, 2013.

Features of Flesh

buffet

chiseled and soft 

are antithesis to 

each other, at least

for describing 

features of flesh. 

the former might, 

however, drive the 

latter into sojourns 

of visual appeal: 

delicious is one way

to describe that 

fleeting category 

of desire. I want 

to taste this like 

sweet and sour.

© 2014 Rick Burnett Baker 

Smile Again. And Again...

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Photo/Text © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 

Passersby

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Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 
Photo by R. Baker taken December 31, 2013 across from Ford's Theater, Washington DC.

As If To Say...

dialectic

weeks become months.           I become non sequitur, 

at least to what I think you thought; 

                                    how to add texture to our plateau event

is a challenge, but more likely rhetorical; 

you are enigma in silence, your history upended.  

                                     I'm the book without a cover, 

title left to your imagination.                 but do you read? 

               I do.               I do and don't always approve 

                      of endings.  

Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 

Photo © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 

To Know, To Not Know

epistemology

think for a moment:
this scene will be gone
in less than one second.

blood coursing through
our veins as crowds
through streets;
as wind through trees;
as earth through a
revolving universe.

we see then look away.

without knowing.

Poem/Photo © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 
Photo by R. Baker taken near Ford's Theater, Washington DC, Dec. 31, 2013

What If?

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Photo by R. Baker taken at Ford's Theater, Washington DC, December 31, 2013.

Streets of Us

Photo by Rick Baker

                  streets of us 

the streets are mud; are cobblestone;  

are brick;  are blackened as tread, feet, 

and weather beat the path we wander. 

sometimes we stop to tie a shoe or adjust 

a belt, but other times we pause to look 

at something pulling at our eye, and then

we see it:  our reflection or another person 

staring back.  it's this moment  the confident 

self parts lips to speak from the gut;  

that moment when we hesitate to spill our 

secrets, then adjust the heart on our sleeve so 

that no one notices we're lost and reluctant

to ask directions or simply say 'hello'.  

Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 

Photo © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 

Photo taken at Ford's Theater, Washington DC, December 31, 2013.