Tuesday, December 1, 2009

December 1966 -- 17 years old
















p. 12:

"Imaginary Brother As Witness"
Pencil on newsprint
(1966; water damage in early 1980s)





1966






Looking northeast this morning after the icy fog lifted on Rosa Parks Day:






















"If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, 'There lived a great people—a black people—who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.'"
(Martin Luther King, Jr., 1955)
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5 comments:

  1. bevDecember 1, 2009 at 12:52 PM

    It's a beautiful pencil drawing - and the aging paper and water damage actually seem to enhance it in an interesting and wonderful way.

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  2. robin andreaDecember 2, 2009 at 9:00 AM

    I am struck by your perceptive poetry at 17.

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  3. amDecember 2, 2009 at 2:52 PM

    Thank you, bev and robin andrea. I am grateful for your presence here as I present my book.

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  4. AnonymousDecember 3, 2009 at 9:40 AM

    and beautiful quote, too.

    just a quick fly by and hi, am.

    cheers to you.

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  5. amDecember 3, 2009 at 10:37 AM

    Thanks always for your presence, R.L. Hope that you are feeling better.

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