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Architecture of Cities: Mapping Beauty XXX

Rotterdam Photo Museum and more.

Three four-foot tall White Storks clothed militarily in Blue Evening Mess lingered against the barn facade: Their colored beaks nodded in my direction: Their farmer indifferent to my amazement postured alongside: The rest of the earths’ inhabitants by contrast appeared naked.

I with immeasurable angst tried to thrust my head out of the train window: My eyes paused: I wanted to take a few two-steps across the fields to examine the truth: If only there was any humanity within view to measure scale and weigh disbelief: I may have been hallucinating: The urgency to pull the emergency stop cord flustered my mind: It is apparent that all of my days recording life through railway windows have seemed dreamily like another’s life: This sighting was an unutterable fascination that will never be relived: The moment – -mine but not for another day. I pressed my eye lids open and shut and repeated: The equally frightening and beautiful beasts had vanished in plain sight> My life is fraught with fear that another moment will........

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