We will sidestep, and to the final smirk
Dally the doom of that inevitable thumb
That slowly chafes its puckered index toward us,
Facing the dull squint with what innocence
And what surprise!And yet these fine collapses are not lies
More than the pirouettes of any pliant cane;
Our obsequies are, in a way, no enterprise.
We can evade you, and all else but the heart:
What blame to us if the heart live on.
©yama-bato,2013
from Hart Crane, ‘Chaplinesque’
Hiroshi Sugimoto 杉本博司
“Mechanical Form 0046, Material testing machine”, 2005
Iris
©yama-bato,2013
Map of the Tibetan empire at its greatest extent between the 780s and the 790s CE.
The Tibetan Empire once covered land that includes the countries of: India, Afghanistan, Nepal, China, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.
(Source: gladys-me)
Charisma Arts Chateau De Gourdon,
Yashô (1782-1825)
“Bat in Flight” Ink on paper
(Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. In Maurice Coyaud ‘L’Empire du regard’- Mille ans de peinture Japonaise’ Ed. Phebus, 1981)
©yama-bato,2013
»mother & child« by herb lubalin (1966)
