Friday, April 23, 2010

Old Woman Bearing Flowers

Black-clad,

White-haired octogenarian
Has just picked some

Purple lilac
And one red

Rose from the road-
Side a goodly way

Distant and is now
Bringing them back

Home to where
Who knows what

Memories await her.

3 comments:

  1. An octogenarian, what memories indeed!

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  2. How often we see people in the midst of a ritual that must--we can feel it--carry a private, and so mysterious, significance. You've captured them all here, Vassilis, in this single portrait. Wonderful!

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  3. Elisabeth,

    Probably more than we can count, that's for sure!

    Joe,

    I was fortunate in passing just at the right time.....this time--but your comments also remind me of those thousands of other similar moments we have witnessed but which have escaped without our being able to capture them. Thanks!

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