Solocrow — One Crow Against the World

Summer fruits

Posted on August 12th, 2008 by solocrow.
Categories: Dead Poets, Generic Blatherings, Images.

Although cherry blossoms are most often associated with Spring, here’s a version of a recent linocut that is the fruit of a few of my summer labors.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

~ Joseph Addison [1672-1719]

And of course, a little something from Shakespeare:

So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition;
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.

~ From A Midsummer’s Night Dream, [III. ii. 208]

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The Vintage of River is Unending

Posted on January 4th, 2008 by solocrow.
Categories: Dead Poets, Generic Blatherings.

Grape-heavy woods ripen darkening
The sweetness.

Tight with golden light
The hills have been gathered.

Granite weights of sun.
Tread of burning days.

Unending river
Swells from the press
To gladden men.

~ Ted Hughes, from River (1983).

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Aphorism

Posted on December 4th, 2007 by solocrow.
Categories: Dead Poets, Generic Blatherings.

The crows mantain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. Doubtless that is so, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for the heavens signify simply: the impossibility of crows.

~ Kafka

Today, I will draw things.

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Two from Ted

Posted on September 18th, 2007 by solocrow.
Categories: Dead Poets, Generic Blatherings, Images.

A minor musing of mine in Photoshop from this morning. Plus two poems from Ted Hughes to fuel the imagination. Enjoy.

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Owl Meditation

Posted on September 6th, 2007 by solocrow.
Categories: Dead Poets, Generic Blatherings, Images.

Here’s a sketch of mine from this morning. It didn’t scan well, but I don’t particularly care, and it’s unlikely that I’ll finish it. Although I’m considering doing a mindless sort of meditation on birds like this every morning. Here’s some owl related material for you to enjoy, since I appear to be somewhat at a loss for words today:

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