violin case

violin case
october 2021
Based on events in the life of poet, thinker & writer, Gerard de Nerval 1808 – 1855.  He was reputed to have walked his ‘pet’ lobster, Thibault, in public, maintaining it made as much sense to walk a lobster as any other beast, and that lobsters were ‘peaceful, serious creatures’.
Unexpectedly I found an article on page 6 in the January 5th, 1925 edition of the ‘Star (Christchurch), ISSUE 17428 describing in brief his life & passing

In fact it’s own master, and happiest in the deep. Acknowledgements to prime.peta.org for use of this image.

were
those friends
who drank to
your mind
in its fire
the raconteur
awash in dreams
and travel,
flashing from
land to language,
were those
friends who
paid not a
penny down,
then so afeared
of charity,
the cup their
good sense
told them
must never
spill?

the wedding
you sought
was held
without

back to back

back to back
a ‘photogram’ for Keikei
25 november 2021, riverside

‘back to back’, a hand-snap by Keikei

much
of the
story
told
in
our
hands,
the rest
remains
in hearts

Copyright © 2021 Peter Le Baige. All Rights Reserved.

such skies

such skies
march 2012, central otago

With acknowledgements to Joy Bennett, who took this photo of the sky over Alexandra, and shared on suff.nz on 23 June 2017.

cloud high
worn like

river flint

on those winds
shining in
the blue

skies that
should
have made a
holy book
at least

cloud

like the

head of

an angel

grieving

at our

disbelief

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The music accompanying the reading is taken from a performance of the piece ‘Kan Otsu’ (甲乙) composed and performed by Japanese composer and shakuhachi player Hōzan Yamamoto (山本邦山).