Light Scrape

Slowly a strange name in a strange tongue

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Sun, 31 May 2020 11:16:00 +0000

The photographs were taken on March 22 at Velskola.

(Posting title is from the poem Way-Station by Archibald MacLeish.)

Even if there was no grief

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Sun, 24 May 2020 12:53:00 +0000

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The photograph was taken on March 15th.

(Posting title is from the poem Ways of Talking by Ha Jin.)

And as I watch you, before I know it

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Fri, 22 May 2020 12:23:00 +0000

The photographs were taken on March 29th.

(Posting title is from the poem Ways of Rebelling by Nathalie Handal.)

Only a refraction of color that

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Wed, 13 May 2020 15:56:00 +0000

The photographs were taken on March 28th.

(Posting title is from the poem Flowers from a New Love after the Divorce by Paisley Rekdal.)

I have kept my eye keen

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Thu, 07 May 2020 14:01:00 +0000

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The photograph was taken at Velskola on March 22nd.

(Posting title is from the poem Flowers, Always by Cate Marvin.)

Who would blink first, lose face, or push the button

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Sat, 02 May 2020 18:02:00 +0000

The photographs were taken at Velskola on March 22nd.

(Posting title is from the poem Flowerpot by Alan R. Shapiro.)

Future, I shall be as efficient as you

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 14:54:00 +0000

The photographs were taken on March 22nd.

(Posting title is from the poem Flowers by John Tranter.)

So lightly and invisibly I hardly knew it

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 13:58:00 +0000

The photographs were taken on March 21st.

(Posting title is from the poem Flow Dynamics by Elizabeth Arnold.)

They’ll surprise you

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:38:00 +0000

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The photograph was taken on March 14th.

(Posting title is from the poem Flowers by Wendy Videlock.)

But color and the movement

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 11:55:00 +0000

The photographs were taken on March 14th.

(Posting title is from the poem Flowers by the Sea by William Carlos Williams.)

Or am I fleeing your coiling uncoiling

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 12:13:00 +0000

The photographs were taken on March 14th.

(Posting title is from the poem Flow by Jonathan Galassi.)

And this sense of wonder

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:14:00 +0000

The photographs were taken on March 8th.

(Posting title is from the poem Johanna Hirshhorn by Gerard Malanga.)

Around the same mind I have now

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 14:20:00 +0000

The photographs were taken on March 8th.

(Posting title is from the poem Apology by Ruby Robinson.)

We who have fetched home inventing storage solutions

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 17:31:00 +0000

The photographs were taken on March 5th at Vantaankoski.

(Posting title is from the poem Hair by Ailbhe Darcy.)

But I am talking nonsense again, as I have since that night

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 16:41:00 +0000

The photographs were taken on March 5th at Vantaankoski.

(Posting title is from the poem The Boatman by Carolyn Forché.)

Is it about vulnerability that can make the hand

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 09:43:00 +0000

The photographs were taken on February 29th while walking in Petikko.

(Posting title is from the poem Monomoy by Carl Phillips.)

I am told too much, so I know too much, so I am wise beyond my years

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 12:26:00 +0000

The photographs were taken on February 23rd while walking at Petikko.

(Posting title is from the poem the children of immigrants by Lenelle Moïse.)

I think you may be worldly after all

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 18:38:00 +0000

The photographs were taken on February 20th.

(Posting title is from the poem The Discoverer’s Man by Paul Batchelor.)

Then everyone who wants to talk to you can do so

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 16:21:00 +0000

The photographs were taken on February 23rd.

(Posting title is from the poem I’m not a religious person but by Chen Chen.)

Now go back to work, go to sleep, yes, go to

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 14:03:00 +0000

The photographs were taken on February 20th at Porkkalanniemi.

(Posting title is from the poem Dope by Amiri Baraka.)

Wanted to, right out the frame

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 10:03:00 +0000

The photographs were taken on February 18th.

(Posting title is from the poem Lessons in Darkness by Peter Gizzi.)

Around the same mind I have now

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 14:50:00 +0000

The photographs were taken on February 18th.

(Posting title is from the poem Apology by Ruby Robinson.)

We trade words like special things

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 16:39:00 +0000

The photographs were taken on February 9th in Petikko.

(Posting title is from the poem luam/asa-luam by Aracelis Girmay.)

One surely must open the door of the problem

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 14:56:00 +0000

The photographs were taken on February 8th near lake Myllyjärvi.

(Posting title is from the poem The Problem by Jane Hirshfield.)

That lingering in that lane might make me conjure

noreply@blogger.com (Juha Haataja) — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 12:38:00 +0000

The photographs were taken on February 2nd.

(Posting title is from the poem Art by Sydney Lea.)