Tuesday, March 30, 2010

A Forest for Ships and Masts...






We look at a forest and say:

Here is a forest for ships and masts,

Red pines,

Free to the tops of their shaggy burden,

To creak in the storm

In the furious forestless air



...

~ Texts: Osip Mandelshtam, Whoever Finds a Horseshoe, 1923

~ Images from Street Angel, directed by Frank Borzage