Posts Tagged ‘Anna Karenina’

The glue has dried….{Anna Karenina |The brightest thing}

Posted in art,poetry,writing, Books, Collage, Quotes, Reading, Watercolor, tagged Anna Karenina, Bassam's San Diego, Coffee shop art, collage, found material, literary cafe on December 10, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Found material and quotes from Tolstoi’s Anna Karenina. Collage. San Diego. December 2013.

Collage part I.

Collage Part II.

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Hello ¦ Goodbye? {art on a saturday night}

Posted in art, Books, Coffee, Collage, Poetry, Quotes, Writing, tagged Anna Karenina, Bassam's San Diego, coffee shop, collage, fountain pen, literary cafe art, writing on December 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »

before…

after…

still waiting after three days for the glue to dry on the rosebuds ….

“We will never walk along the river again,
So walk with me in this poem.”
Eric Jirek

The night shift belongs to the poets.

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