Les Mascarons de Bordeaux are important artifacts at the Hotel de Ville in Quebec, Canada. A gift from the famed city in France, they were to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Quebec. Carnivalesque, royal, ancient, and modern -- you can look at these figures in many ways. But we at the blogpost choose to look at them long and deeply, and to think of them as...friends. More words and images at, blog.amynelsonhahn.info
Eminence
Dating back to Medusa
and the shield of mighty Perseus,
your liminal eyes
cast a thousand longing spies
back through a window,
over a doorpost, into history
itself, and asked us:
what secrets are worth keeping?
and shall we lose our tongues
today, or keep on speaking?
Many faces, somewhat aghast,
at folly long since dead --
what, can we still make of you,
but pass along, and try hard
not to lose our heads.
(c) Amy Nelson McVeigh 2012
for photos please see 3784, 3786, 3788, 3791, 3793, and 3794 at blog.amynelsonhahn.info
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