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In every picture,
there's a poem;
In every poem,
a picture.

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Dear Friends:

Here's what's new on the Picture/Poem website
the second week of February 2008. Coming to you this
week from Richland, Oregon & the beautiful Wallowa Mountains . . .

Picture/Poems: Central Display (and follow links to...)

       http://www.picture-poems.com

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FEBRUARY SPECIAL FEATURE:

*PhotoWeek Northwest: Image Index update*

The fastest way to find new stuff. Updated with 34 new images . . .

http://www.cs-music.com/features/photos/photoweek-archive_nw.html

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Featured photograph/poems from "Images of the Natural Year":

*After Storm, New Snow—clearing*

This week, four new translations from the
GERMAN:

THE MOUNTAIN

Six and thirty times and hundred times
the painter tried to capture the mountain,
tore it up, then pushed on again
(six and thirty times and hundred times)

to the incomprehensible volcanoes,
blissful, full of temptation, without counsel,—
while the outlines of his glory
went on without coming to an end:

Fading a thousand times out of all the days,
nights without comparison from which
dropped, as if they were all too small;
each image at the moment it was needed,
increasing from figure to figure,
not partaking and far and without viewpoint—,
then suddenly knowing, as in a vision,
lifting itself up behind every crevice.

Rainer Maria Rilke (tr. Cliff Crego)
from: New Poems, the other part

http://www.picture-poems.com/rilke/features/deepsnow.html

See also the PosterPage for THE MOUNTAIN at:
http://cs-music.com/features/cards/poster_mountain.html

Or DOWNLOAD the PDF at:



http://cs-music.com/features/cards/poster_mountain.pdf
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

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Featured PhotoWeek Images:

*FEBRUARY STEPPE*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/february-steppe_2.html

*WIND-IN-SNOW*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/wind-in-snow_2.html

*WIND SHADOW / LIGHT SHADOW*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/wind-shadow_light-shadow_2.html

*4-WHEELER, STRAIGHT TRACK*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/4-wheeler_straight-track.html

*CANDLEMAS CURVE*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/candlemas_curve.html

*Ice Mirror with Tree: Thoughts on a future photography I*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/january-ice-mirror.html

*SNOWY TRACTOR*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/snowy-tractor.html

*EAGLE CREEK, NEW SNOW*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/eagle-creek_1-15-08b.html

*CANDLEMAS POWDER RIVER*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/candlemas_powder-river.html

*SNOWCAMP, THAW OUT!*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/snowcamp_thawout.html

*WINTER PATH*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/winter-path_1-15-08.html

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Featured Miniature:

*ON BALANCE IN FLOWING MOVEMENT*

http://cs-music.com/features/cards/poster_snow-flowforms.html

Download PDF at:



http://cs-music.com/features/cards/poster_snow-flowforms.pdf
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

Purchase online glossy A4 (8 x 10") Posters $4.99:

http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/album.jsp?aid=768a5498cf73536aeff1

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Featured Picture Poem:

Barn Work

(1)

Working in the barn all day,
moving manure from here
to there.

Evening, and the low door opens
all by itself. Walking out the door,
I bump my head against the stars.

(2)

Life inside the stomach of a cow!

Low ceiling, pigshit smells,
moving manure from here to
there.

Late summer hay is mid-winter joy.
The goat's eyes are filled with delicate
bells pouring over into the sweetness
of milk. A last drop and the bucket is full,
the gentle waves of a warm evening wind.

(3)

The gift of labor.

Working together on a neighbor's
farm, moving manure from here
to there.

An old wheelbarrow,
the wooden handle's worn thin
as a bone—on one side only—the
right side.

They say his older brother
died young.

http://picture-poems.com/week6/snowcow.html

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Featured Guest Poems:

*12 Miniatures by Emily Dickinson*

Selected & read by Cliff Crego
http://cs-music.com/features/movs/guest/dickinson-12.html

Or listen in streamed RealAudio at:



http://picture-poems.com/realaudio/download_dickinson-12.ram

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Featured Musical Compositions:

*Stone Song*

Based on eight English translations by Cliff Crego of poems
by the Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg

DOWNLOAD MP3 at:
http://picture-poems.com/mp3/stonesong.mp3 [6.7 Mb]

Or listen in streaming RealAudio at:
http://picture-poems.com/realaudio/stonesong.ram

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Featured Links:

*THE STORY OF STUFF*

The Story of Stuff is a virtuoso c. 21 minute performance
documentary on the ecology of waste, by environmentalist
Annie Leonard. You can download the complete film in
QuickTime format

http://picture-poens.com/links

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As always, your comments and
suggestions are welcome.

All the best.
Cliff Crego
Northeast Oregon, USA
crego@picture-poems.com

The Picture/Poems February 2008 Calendar *FEBRUARY SNOW PROFILE* is at:
http://cs-music.com/features/calendars/calendar_snowprofile_2.html

Download the PDF of the calendar at:



http://cs-music.com/features/calendars/calendar_snowprofile_2.pdf
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

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