tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-307700312024-03-13T12:30:12.184-05:00St. Louis Brick<b> Presenting a collection of St. Louis bricks, sidewalk markers, and the Fleur-de-lis as architectural detail on and in city buildings, brick collecting, urban exploration, and my life by Christian Herman. Reporting from Tower Grove South in St. Louis, MO </b>Christian Hermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04862002525138373657noreply@blogger.comBlogger1869125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30770031.post-27273819062383916112024-03-13T12:29:00.000-05:002024-03-13T12:29:40.493-05:00Cross Docking. Noir. Deaths Elsewhere<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBoVYwkg9z4DyKJAVWdHxcYeRxzl-HWP0ELH5bm-xrWolyyDYl4UWNLB5vksw2cgglPoXRI4cxJKwiPoSHcbPhvCg1Qp84vZQa5d0fBIf71IOUj6sl6XBLlgbndJ6gnCkGIlxd0KBlEAjLCzJSELxJYiX2VRS4wZsJDZbY96fBefDp8Q8GGvfYAQ/s1440/Cross%20Docking.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="600" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBoVYwkg9z4DyKJAVWdHxcYeRxzl-HWP0ELH5bm-xrWolyyDYl4UWNLB5vksw2cgglPoXRI4cxJKwiPoSHcbPhvCg1Qp84vZQa5d0fBIf71IOUj6sl6XBLlgbndJ6gnCkGIlxd0KBlEAjLCzJSELxJYiX2VRS4wZsJDZbY96fBefDp8Q8GGvfYAQ/s600/Cross%20Docking.jpg"/></a></div>Christian Hermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04862002525138373657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30770031.post-87789017694878006182024-03-04T10:48:00.003-06:002024-03-04T10:48:58.177-06:00Pist. 2012Lunch with Pist who is cracking my inviolable heart. <br>
His obvious pain. The cruelty of a severed spine. <br>
Tell me about the accident, I said. <br>
Do you want the detailed narrative or the short version? <br>
Whichever you prefer. <br>
Circumstances, he said. <br>
We exchanged the same parched smile. <br>Christian Hermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04862002525138373657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30770031.post-24857921312794662622024-03-01T11:19:00.012-06:002024-03-04T10:41:59.065-06:002009. Fyler - The Paper Street Last week I had an opportunity to meet with the owner of Keller Manufacturing on Fyler just west of Morgan Ford Rd. Click on the title above to link his business (I want one of these: http://www.gardexusa.com/commercial.asp) <br>
Mr. Keller kindly answered my questions about his business, the buildings (made in 1961), how the street used to look before it was paved and some history of the street (below).<br>
Keller Manufacturing is a series of buildings that I've admired for years:
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A paper street is a road or street that appears on maps but in reality remains unpaved. It generally occurs when city planners or sub-division developers submit plans that include such streets; and when changes occur, they are not removed or updated. Fyler was paved in the mid 60's.
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Sometime around the turn of the last century a company existed on Fyler, The Parker-Russell Mining Company, that manufactured terra cotta barrel tiles for roofing. The owner of the company had a series of tiny houses made across the street and along MGF that he rented to his employees:
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This hill was created when Fyler finally graded and paved. It's filled with broken pieces of terra cotta that previously cluttered the street.
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Bits of terra cotta:
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This is a typical house along Flyer. Four rooms: The living room and bedroom are upstairs, kitchen and bathroom are downstairs. No basements.
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No windows on either side of the houses.
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These houses across from Marti's memorial garden on Morgan Ford Rd were also employee housing.
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OK, so I mentioned he's no ballerina on the track at the gym. Rigid back, no swing to the shoulders. It's painful to spy on him walking the track while trying to keep my pogo dancing on the elliptical rhythmic. It's all he does at the gym: No lifting, no machines, nada. Three days a week he's a freaking track junkie. I was thinking about paying 46.00 a month to stroll the track when he tells me the story of a Frida Kahlo-esque accident two years ago in some southern goth backwater town in Mississippi where he was doing research on frogs. This resulted in extended hospital tours that involved lying on polluted beds, howling, incapacitated and beckoning death.<br>
I was a client with no experience to direct my care, he said, I was forced to consider the existential question. The question that takes on a rabid twist for a 'patient' who chooses to spend his time in what basically was a prison. The question that is also in an old Sylvia Plath poem, do you know it? He quoted:<p>
That being free. What would the dark<br>
Do without fevers to eat?<br>
What would the light<br>
Do without eyes to knife, what would he<br>
Do, do, do without me?<p>
I know it, I said, it's called The Jailer. And the question, buried deep, is How did I get here?
Christian Hermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04862002525138373657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30770031.post-55163186465637810932024-02-18T13:38:00.003-06:002024-02-18T13:38:44.285-06:00TinkerBelle at 6 months with her BFF<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg-2fytay5c2Le1nH3qgQX2pHCTr5cjtYlEfnNe_3yrP1P_pgPZPSUiRMHPIAr_3NRR00rbq6UZunsTcCSPrMVk4V1ISikwaFS_wmZZL6zNYwnx_af5ehoDum12PtndBjVoqHV9xU2irs4ry-7XA6hkWFoOAiPVomkC3XL2GsDt4uZbyXqi7yTMQ/s3500/IMG_7498.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" height="600" data-original-height="3500" data-original-width="2972" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg-2fytay5c2Le1nH3qgQX2pHCTr5cjtYlEfnNe_3yrP1P_pgPZPSUiRMHPIAr_3NRR00rbq6UZunsTcCSPrMVk4V1ISikwaFS_wmZZL6zNYwnx_af5ehoDum12PtndBjVoqHV9xU2irs4ry-7XA6hkWFoOAiPVomkC3XL2GsDt4uZbyXqi7yTMQ/s600/IMG_7498.JPG"/></a></div>Christian Hermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04862002525138373657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30770031.post-80733096327195894532024-02-15T20:02:00.001-06:002024-02-15T20:02:10.440-06:00Totem. St Louis Noir #85<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhY5WDR81QfpCxU2OGjEPsuVdeqp4Ak1XMczfVIIy8doE6F0wQbyTY5INNt2VUBv7ilXamvyzxLKOiUD4nwLIIL_wTTk5Gwmmv_JphRnPq7UwRRnyhdK0rt9FjP7vy0kSGDkdxPdexWAMtNqa1Q7jx5qRL7SyE3BjSSLdL8dMgoVENPqVPk_8ExA/s941/IMG_6962.PNG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" height="600" data-original-height="941" data-original-width="650" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhY5WDR81QfpCxU2OGjEPsuVdeqp4Ak1XMczfVIIy8doE6F0wQbyTY5INNt2VUBv7ilXamvyzxLKOiUD4nwLIIL_wTTk5Gwmmv_JphRnPq7UwRRnyhdK0rt9FjP7vy0kSGDkdxPdexWAMtNqa1Q7jx5qRL7SyE3BjSSLdL8dMgoVENPqVPk_8ExA/s600/IMG_6962.PNG"/></a></div>Christian Hermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04862002525138373657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30770031.post-5203635697541161722024-02-15T19:31:00.003-06:002024-02-15T19:31:43.905-06:00Golden Hour<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifpwK9aj-3JQ2ajmx9F1yjpHIjE9s6qCGqqsFPTwNoJShKQdp8_AHvu8-Z-Am_fI2UkP7jsFHuGESB0R5jZ6rgUlCP_zxaX73hwt8LrGBVObwtTW-7ZkZ-Y-SOcgpEMiNMI9J_filb8HjUBibCGh3zkJp6DPXbY5UW09KoSD6u4CAgclgvQPJo4Q/s4032/IMG_6951.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="600" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifpwK9aj-3JQ2ajmx9F1yjpHIjE9s6qCGqqsFPTwNoJShKQdp8_AHvu8-Z-Am_fI2UkP7jsFHuGESB0R5jZ6rgUlCP_zxaX73hwt8LrGBVObwtTW-7ZkZ-Y-SOcgpEMiNMI9J_filb8HjUBibCGh3zkJp6DPXbY5UW09KoSD6u4CAgclgvQPJo4Q/s600/IMG_6951.JPG"/></a></div>Christian Hermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04862002525138373657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30770031.post-46945808609468343622024-02-12T09:26:00.003-06:002024-02-12T09:26:15.619-06:00Noni. Feat Diamond. 2017. St Louis Noir #27. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwcihjRB3AVhYR_BfEcaEX_4k3LE9MriBIkwbjXxOAO3l9ekNB_pZN7RJKxVtXMEWiyImHpyT_nTt-AP3ZPLJzStZBPl1kXtXA9IRk4nWw-_BBhWLfyYjofm1sI_knfWVamkCOUQ0mr8EqW5QHLduWprVBzf_6dKNw0nRCNpeOJpZJ0QvB7hLQoA/s1440/A%20NONI.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" height="600" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwcihjRB3AVhYR_BfEcaEX_4k3LE9MriBIkwbjXxOAO3l9ekNB_pZN7RJKxVtXMEWiyImHpyT_nTt-AP3ZPLJzStZBPl1kXtXA9IRk4nWw-_BBhWLfyYjofm1sI_knfWVamkCOUQ0mr8EqW5QHLduWprVBzf_6dKNw0nRCNpeOJpZJ0QvB7hLQoA/s600/A%20NONI.jpg"/></a></div>Christian Hermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04862002525138373657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30770031.post-73114194793349175522024-01-30T11:03:00.000-06:002024-01-30T11:03:02.745-06:00Clementis by Shadow Light<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVcLHALJ0ayImGrlozGSxQhdwT0-V7TUjrCKCusOzEeNRR3oGfHt6qWoXimOpsik6ssEbCiL8W3Nrt-P1qi9Thmuuizc_Ef3SPK7JNZbE23YmJM3l7wFPe5oWjvZtlGiWLPllNapTFNsCVWZxrMu7A1p3QrWRVPQK4eRrB2qk4tgmo9hALcseNdw/s2016/1%20a%20%282%29aab.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="600" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVcLHALJ0ayImGrlozGSxQhdwT0-V7TUjrCKCusOzEeNRR3oGfHt6qWoXimOpsik6ssEbCiL8W3Nrt-P1qi9Thmuuizc_Ef3SPK7JNZbE23YmJM3l7wFPe5oWjvZtlGiWLPllNapTFNsCVWZxrMu7A1p3QrWRVPQK4eRrB2qk4tgmo9hALcseNdw/s600/1%20a%20%282%29aab.jpg"/></a></div>Christian Hermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04862002525138373657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30770031.post-58401726068587482142024-01-30T10:59:00.004-06:002024-01-30T10:59:14.512-06:00See you too<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiaSrIoEqRZxWNmfIUjQjW6aoDytJRK5NhxlI535T0_PTrU3sTUHlZALMrNeK1_-ZcZEtQ1NgjwqczvgvJuA3wJLvQoRSirdejO558wt5_BNS9TkTCbGW5tSGW1Emh_2JJtYzAO9AxELB4H-uwNHQSspjUpHQKDJi68aIitJLxB1EjGBXQtvXSLA/s1122/1%202%20a.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" height="600" data-original-height="1122" data-original-width="828" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiaSrIoEqRZxWNmfIUjQjW6aoDytJRK5NhxlI535T0_PTrU3sTUHlZALMrNeK1_-ZcZEtQ1NgjwqczvgvJuA3wJLvQoRSirdejO558wt5_BNS9TkTCbGW5tSGW1Emh_2JJtYzAO9AxELB4H-uwNHQSspjUpHQKDJi68aIitJLxB1EjGBXQtvXSLA/s600/1%202%20a.jpg"/></a></div>Christian Hermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04862002525138373657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30770031.post-31790102911185854182024-01-30T10:51:00.005-06:002024-01-30T10:51:40.290-06:00Heat. 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRz0Z_VvQvZld6vErsn8ul4pBXbjKZMNkdsPB7s-Maa4Cd5YEUn1PF_ow00WajN7xfT10GKVGAYkuekHB5rnLFRevxqRn2-Hi9smwWtVLnrL9diJhZPgSnx7FR2eYCO2Wg3wt4QcEntitmIJcZ0yLBmwXLXPPUM1gHJ6q7WSm__cxlp_JxMoyO1Q/s2016/1%20a%20%282%29aac.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="600" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRz0Z_VvQvZld6vErsn8ul4pBXbjKZMNkdsPB7s-Maa4Cd5YEUn1PF_ow00WajN7xfT10GKVGAYkuekHB5rnLFRevxqRn2-Hi9smwWtVLnrL9diJhZPgSnx7FR2eYCO2Wg3wt4QcEntitmIJcZ0yLBmwXLXPPUM1gHJ6q7WSm__cxlp_JxMoyO1Q/s600/1%20a%20%282%29aac.jpg"/></a></div>Christian Hermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04862002525138373657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30770031.post-79042367919441604142024-01-28T11:22:00.016-06:002024-02-06T18:23:08.571-06:00Changly is on the Steps That runt dick, he saidt, lives down the street in a dark, needy, nasty shack. Needs attention, its a patch, like him eth. Runt lawn a shadow. No anything but dust on dirt. No pretty there, no light to it. Man, you fall in lookin at it. <br>
Me: Coffee? <br>
Changly: Yeah, mud like that, that runt dick you tossed.<br>
Me (laughing): Changly, would you like coffee!?<br>
Christian Hermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04862002525138373657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30770031.post-37390579837460878822024-01-19T11:59:00.011-06:002024-03-11T21:03:46.872-05:00Broken Coffin or Where you crawled <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7RJRYM4u7DGTuZ04vgzlYrGK9mFRydxwXA0vOKzTbQPA6MSiZ-sqqemYqlkEbNmX4neGlBMNpkjOTH172J8YGa46rWQpBN4nilz0WYRW-7UoYDbWkpSPSfJiK2tOo214jHYU3Z-Jrw5M0fzZEMyp1fJnALJ1J41qMPdaxEQBCDBHtLp7BP-QDBg/s3801/IMG_1893.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="600" data-original-height="2942" data-original-width="3801" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7RJRYM4u7DGTuZ04vgzlYrGK9mFRydxwXA0vOKzTbQPA6MSiZ-sqqemYqlkEbNmX4neGlBMNpkjOTH172J8YGa46rWQpBN4nilz0WYRW-7UoYDbWkpSPSfJiK2tOo214jHYU3Z-Jrw5M0fzZEMyp1fJnALJ1J41qMPdaxEQBCDBHtLp7BP-QDBg/s600/IMG_1893.JPG"/></a></div>Christian Hermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04862002525138373657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30770031.post-55533644005677387342024-01-19T11:54:00.000-06:002024-01-19T11:54:01.640-06:00Crisp/y<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXHombPBObupQ4Fl5W2rw3vGM505zY6vBjU5Ca_intLzMXJxVHeWyfS1A5qdqnw62I_sP2MYd4TJmXZHVKFUdayTIdMobcZB5H2HUJPi5Jl9SphlZusbtVtWKyxdSfagfQC6rzcSGbCrgfvnfPRCleJIDrVdyqi4DDzyDont0WBRH2xDEaeRB0SQ/s4032/IMG_1916.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="600" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXHombPBObupQ4Fl5W2rw3vGM505zY6vBjU5Ca_intLzMXJxVHeWyfS1A5qdqnw62I_sP2MYd4TJmXZHVKFUdayTIdMobcZB5H2HUJPi5Jl9SphlZusbtVtWKyxdSfagfQC6rzcSGbCrgfvnfPRCleJIDrVdyqi4DDzyDont0WBRH2xDEaeRB0SQ/s600/IMG_1916.JPG"/></a></div>Christian Hermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04862002525138373657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30770031.post-63912490164018076192024-01-19T11:45:00.006-06:002024-02-06T18:24:57.209-06:00You were a only bruise that faded. I am skin.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEituDeLpKrnPVqWQwqBTidK1RaR4ozYTkODbrmCbY40Biq-PGk59a7iNLHdKXffb980RHiugECZTQn84vd4Q6xXEq-UNYSd1sVCc7Bj2J3TCDHiRu-JU6CHh2agDBs9lggLC982MyccqPXrG_LEWNf1t-9cmv7OARjhZmmODJEVrIW7t9uRLRflvQ/s3953/IMG_2227.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="600" data-original-height="3007" data-original-width="3953" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEituDeLpKrnPVqWQwqBTidK1RaR4ozYTkODbrmCbY40Biq-PGk59a7iNLHdKXffb980RHiugECZTQn84vd4Q6xXEq-UNYSd1sVCc7Bj2J3TCDHiRu-JU6CHh2agDBs9lggLC982MyccqPXrG_LEWNf1t-9cmv7OARjhZmmODJEVrIW7t9uRLRflvQ/s600/IMG_2227.JPG"/></a></div>Christian Hermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04862002525138373657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30770031.post-65131049571017164422024-01-16T12:27:00.003-06:002024-01-16T12:27:30.312-06:00The Burden of Straight Seeing<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifooVoHyPSVk4GSOVF2GN9WPiKWQXG828_9UWYXWxXw2MPfzZLj7-TNCWcEMHMDagE9x6G_IyhI7vEisRYVo1tDFymS8VQN4A82u1HLbgLibdKe-fk0QfrXbTT6iksp2vgw5Eb8-Ptzy25BkPWE1yoLuAvnFK0QsgV9YAP66W90N9nR1N9h2CLhQ/s3932/IMG_5406.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" height="600" data-original-height="3932" data-original-width="2949" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifooVoHyPSVk4GSOVF2GN9WPiKWQXG828_9UWYXWxXw2MPfzZLj7-TNCWcEMHMDagE9x6G_IyhI7vEisRYVo1tDFymS8VQN4A82u1HLbgLibdKe-fk0QfrXbTT6iksp2vgw5Eb8-Ptzy25BkPWE1yoLuAvnFK0QsgV9YAP66W90N9nR1N9h2CLhQ/s600/IMG_5406.JPG"/></a></div>Christian Hermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04862002525138373657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30770031.post-52936503314594142932023-12-30T14:14:00.004-06:002023-12-30T14:14:40.105-06:00 Wick Draft. St Louis Noir # 731<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA7x2a1uCy5hvCIEGby-lhu_OWz90ZcrybTyVRbbNI9qm6RcWW411N7q98s3On2ODfDCdXMzhEe9IODLnffx3yUUr38VtaztbDm5w802ChnoubY431RUcgmKl5v2Ij7e4caZf_5pbU_HSEDUZsh0YvQ0VPZ1cxDvJv40NzgDiXmn-buEagjBt8XA/s1334/IMG_5695.PNG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" height="600" data-original-height="1334" data-original-width="750" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA7x2a1uCy5hvCIEGby-lhu_OWz90ZcrybTyVRbbNI9qm6RcWW411N7q98s3On2ODfDCdXMzhEe9IODLnffx3yUUr38VtaztbDm5w802ChnoubY431RUcgmKl5v2Ij7e4caZf_5pbU_HSEDUZsh0YvQ0VPZ1cxDvJv40NzgDiXmn-buEagjBt8XA/s600/IMG_5695.PNG"/></a></div>Christian Hermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04862002525138373657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30770031.post-61039235881221421492023-12-26T12:31:00.002-06:002023-12-26T12:31:11.881-06:00East BellevilleGreek Revival and Italianate homes. The architecture in Belleville is fabulous.
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I love paper.
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We were in a rotating landscape of houses, alleys, garages.<br>
Significant that the alleys were concrete and not black asphalt for white settings dominate my perfect dreams.<br>
The scenes kept shifting but we remained together. We were consistently and successfully dodging something intangible.<br>
You were awkward which charmed me and oddly decisive.<br>
I thought you were tolerating me when a hidden affection escaped through your hands. I caught some of it when an abbreviated smile landed in my hair. <br>
I woke rubbing my head and listening to the cries from various crows as they passed over the house.<br>
I woke smiling.
Christian Hermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04862002525138373657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30770031.post-21613678685013788202023-12-04T12:25:00.004-06:002023-12-04T12:27:25.819-06:00Working SilenceWhat's in her heart, she didn't put there, I saidt.
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