Thursday, January 30, 2014

On the Horizon



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© 2013, 2014 Rick Burnett Baker 
Photo by R. Baker taken in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia October 2013. 

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

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 

Monday, January 20, 2014

Smile Again. And Again...



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Photo/Text © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 


Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Passersby


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

Saturday, January 4, 2014

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

Friday, January 3, 2014

What If?


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

Thursday, January 2, 2014

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.