sounds of Detroit
Floorplan (aka Robert Hood), “Never Grow Old” (Re-Plant), 2014
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He walked in awe
In awe of light
At nightfall, not at dawn
Whatever he saw
Receding from sight
In the sky’s afterglow
Was what he wanted
To see, to know—Samuel Menashe (1925-2011), “Enlightenment”
sounds of Detroit
Detroit Mass Choir, “The Storm Is Passing Over” (C. Tindley, D. Vails), live, Detroit, 2001
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago
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No matter how hard
I try, I can’t stop thinking
of my old village—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
More from Aretha’s homegoing service.
Smokey Robinson, “Really Gonna Miss You,” live, Detroit, 8/31/18
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Brook, Ill. (Dean Nature Sanctuary)
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Your path is at your feet whether you realize it or not.
—painter Agnes Martin, 1912-2004 (Arne Glimcher, Agnes Martin: Paintings, Writings, Remembrances, 2012)
More from Aretha’s homegoing service.
Jennifer Hudson, “Amazing Grace,” live, Detroit, 8/31/18
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The World Contracted to a Recognizable Image
by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)at the small end of an illness
there was a picture
probably Japanese
which filled my eyean idiotic picture
except it was all I recognized
the wall lived for me in that picture
I clung to it as a fly
Aretha’s father
Rev. C. L. Franklin (1915-1984), “I’m Going Through” (Parts I & II), 1968