April from The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

 April 

Based on The Canterbury Tales: Prologue 

With apologies to Chaucer 

for my modern rendering

Text, design & research by Rick Doble. All images are from commons.wikimedia.org unless otherwise noted.

 Many little birds 
 make melody 

 when April 
 with his showers  

 bathes the root  

 of each flower  

 soaking them 
 with sweet liquor 

 so that the tender shoots 

 and buds do grow 

The Original Text:

Here bygynneth the Book 
of the tales of Caunterbury
Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,...

Metaphors For Being Human

METAPHORS FOR BEING HUMAN

All images are from commons.wikimedia.org unless otherwise noted. 
Research, text, design & editing by Rick Doble.

 Every age has its metaphors: 

 Today it's the computer 

 Last century the machine 

 Before that the zodiac 

 And before that... 

Australian aboriginal art 

Spring Equinox 2016, March 20

 SPRING EQUINOX 

-- when day and night are equal --

 Derived from the Latin: 

 equi = equal 

 nox = night 

 With electric lights 

 and central heat 

 we have 

 forgotten 

 the delicate 

 balance 

 between 

 Earth 

 & 

 Sun 

Text, design & research by Rick Doble. All images are from commons.wikimedia.org unless otherwise noted.

Rooftop At Night - New York City

 ROOFTOP AT NIGHT 
 NYC, 1962 
Spring Break
 Personal Stories 

Greenwich Village: 6th Ave., Greenwich Ave., 8 & 9th Streets, Christopher St., age 15
Map from Google Maps, photo from Google Earth. Text, editing, design & research by Rick Doble.

 It 

 was 

 a solitary 
 rooftop 
 night game 

 watching 

 all 5 roads 

 simultaneously 

 as they 

 converged 

 next to shoppers on the sidewalk 

 buying 

 vegetables 

 from 

 the 

 green grocer 

Boarding School - Bergman's Magician

 EXETER STREET THEATER 
 Boston, 1960 
 Personal Stories 

Between Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and New York City, age 15
Photograph of theater from commons.wikimedia.org; poster of The Magician used according to 'fair use' standard
Text, editing, design & research by Rick Doble.

 Between 

 boarding school 

 and parents 

 -- between trains in Boston -- 

 for just a few hours 

 I am alone 

 and 

 free 

 I take 

 the underground 

 to a strange forbidding 

 theater 

 where I watch 

 the supernatural: 

 Ingmar Bergman's The Magician 

 in stark 

 black & white 

Poster inserted from this url: 

http://s9.thisnext.com/media/largest_dimension/Ingmar-Bergman-s-The-Magician_42D31A5A.jpg

 used in accordance with the fair use doctrine:

low resolution, non-profit publication, no effect on the market for this film.