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NauenThen

Monday Quote

Paterson lies in the valley under the Passaic Falls

its spent waters forming the ouline of his back.

 

Say it, no idea but in things

 

a man like a city and a woman like a flower

—who are in love. Two women. Three women.

Innumerable women, each like a flower.

 

     But

only one man—like a city.

 

~ William Carlos Williams, from Paterson

 

I took this photo yesterday at the Great Falls National Park. How is it that I worked nearby for years & never moseyed over here. I was so moved to see the same sight as the cover of Paterson, a book I've been reading constantly for decades. 

 

This post begins a week of Williams or until I run out of pictures that I took yesterday. 

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