Metaphors for what I feel

Jean Stimmell
Sep 5, 2018 · 1 min read

With nuclear annihilation ever more probable

under the unhinged reign of Tyranus Trump

And climate change like cancer unchecked,

relentlessly eating away Earth’s bounty:

words fail me…

Instead here are two images

metaphors for what I feel

No, not vast blossoming tulip fields but acres of abandoned bicycles in China. Photographer, Mathias Guillin, took this photo with his drone
A Tikuna mask designed by Jean-Baptiste Debret during the French Artistic Mission (1816–31)(missing and probably destroyed in the recent fire at the Brazil National Museum

Originally published at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com on September 5, 2018.

Jean Stimmell

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psychotherapist, photographer, wonderer…a barnacle clinging to Earth Mother’s toe

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