Skip to content

The Art Part

A blog about photographs and words

Archives

Authors

  • 1 jonathanmorse
    • Technical note: vision and the passage of history
    • Echoes of singing women, no longer quite audible
    • Accademia dei Lincei: for the application form
    • You’ll know me by my garb
    • The cleanly rhythm

Song of Myself

Image

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death

October 27, 2019October 27, 2019 jonathanmorse
catsection 6Song of MyselfvegetationWhitman
Image

All this I swallow, it tastes good, I like it well, it becomes mine

December 29, 2017May 16, 2018 jonathanmorse
catsection 33Song of MyselfWhitman
Image

Undrape! you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded

February 12, 2017May 16, 2018 jonathanmorse
bird of paradise plantSong of MyselfStrelitziaWhitman

O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues

October 10, 2016May 16, 2018 jonathanmorse
blossombotanycolorflowerLeaves of GrassplantSong of MyselfWhitman

You must habit yourself to the dazzle

Sources: “Passenger ship Zealandia in wartime dazzle paint.” Australian National Maritime Museum, https://www.flickr.com/photos/anmm_thecommons/7737510908. Photoshopped.

Whitman, Song of Myself, section 46.

November 17, 2015May 16, 2018 jonathanmorse
camouflagecatchiaroscurodazzle paintshadowshipSong of MyselfWhitmanWorld War I
Image

There is that in me — I do not know what it is — but I know it is in me.

March 2, 2015May 16, 2018 jonathanmorse
catpoetrysection 50Song of MyselfWalt Whitman
Create a website or blog at WordPress.com