Wooden Boy: Tales from the School of Art

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A girl of Voss, Hardanger Fjord, Norway, c. 1890: photochrome print, Detroit Publishing Co., 1905 (Library of Congress)

Falling over hisself with

          his tumbledown longing

        giving out the raggedy signs

                      with a dirty brush

       Glamour, disarming

                  scorning the polished demand

    seeping between the fingers

                   held over the eyes

                     Blossoming: the burst sea wall

                remembered here

                        and here the hundreds of arcing stars

                      duffing up the hung up dark

                                

            and the Norwegian girl

    drunk and

               in tears and

                   not in love

                       and not in love

Midnight sun at Advent Bay, Spitzbergen, Norway, c. 1890: photochrome print, Detroit Publishing Co., 1905 (Library of Congress)

Advent Bay, Spitzbergen, Norway, c. 1890: photochrome print, Detroit Publishing Co., 1905 (Library of Congress)

Drifting ice, Spitzbergen, Norway, c. 1890: photochrome print, Detroit Publishing Co., 1905 (Library of Congress)

Loen, Kjendalskronebrae, Nordfjord, Norway, c. 1890: photochrome print, Detroit Publishing Co., 1905 (Library of Congress)

Wooden Boy: Tales from the School of Art, from The Little Wooden Boy, 10 June 2012