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Harmonious Hearts-Braided Souls

Homosexual friends in their kitchen on Mulberry Street Waterloo, Iowa 1973. My gentle Ronnie was about to stand up, present the photographer with a small columnar cactus and issue instructions to him to sit on it. Most person who knew us had no idea how angry Ronnie was at the brutality we had suffered at the hands of heteros, he never showed it, unless we were alone or at least together.

He was dead in less than ten years after this shot was made. The man I was then, died with him.

 

Starting to call you

Come watch these butterflies

Oh! I’m all alone

- Taigi

 

Will we meet again

Here at your flowering grave…

Two white butterflies?

-Basho

 

A short summer night

But in this solemn darkness

One peony bloomed

- Buson

 

This world of ours

To what shall I compare it?

To the white wake of a boat

That rows away in the early dawn.

 

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Uploaded on December 7, 2013
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