David Hodgdon
Photographer and Poet
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WHISPERS OF PERMANENCE

We heard the whispers of permanence, 
a life fully and abundantly vitalized, occasionally realized, 
an aged cabernet residing inauspiciously
in our presence,
uncorked and breathing, prepared 
to emit its maturity, eons 
of experience exerting 
its personality, its bearing,
an opportunity to celebrate 
its lineage and tutelage,
the vintner masterfully imbuing it with its
     vibrancy,
nurturing it with patience and 
prescience, instilling it with a character, 
a fortitude, a distinction –
its parental support yielding to an equally
attentive sommelier,
its mentor, if you will,
not to prescind, but to couple its
     individual nature
with companionship, protecting it 
from unwarranted or unfortunate
     pairings,
enhancing the viticulture with the promise
of a savory, communion, ambience, and 
interconnection, 
the intricate relationships contrapuntally
     situated
in the sharing of the tannins -
acidic, oaky, bitter, balanced, or bold -
differing demeanors mellowed at times by 
its companions in taste,
enhanced at other times by them,
the shared swirling eliciting considerable 
aromas – of nut, of fruit, of mineral – 
heralding the savoring of thoughtful,
     complex tastes
symbolic of a secure individual,
periodically pondering 
its purpose to transcend the mundane -
the empirical - and 
touch the timeless. 

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RETIREMENT

Realizing that our questions surpass our answers, we
Eye more than the present –
Toasting independence, moving our children from
Islands to peninsulas and beyond,
Reaching for more than themselves,
Emerging from the ether or promise,
Momentarily rejoicing the
Energy of our youth, their journeys,
Noting their contributions to our lives and ours to theirs,
Transcending the tyranny of time.





OEUVRE

Mesmerized by the passage, the
     progress,
a cruise unmeasured, unplanned,
bruising with the unpredictable spin of
     riptides and brisk swells,
blessed with the swing of teasing ebb
     tides
that excite or temper precipitation,
honing natant contours –
the artist portending a canvas, even as
     the image issues,
conceiving aurora
as sunfalls –
shimmering, glimmering –
refracting prism-like,
defying dusk sketching dawn,
soliciting clarity –
a shade of surety latent
within our weathered personalities,
God cherishing an Olympiad of heart, a
     festivity of spirit.







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INSPIRITED LIFE

Her presence
presumes
a context
a moment of inspiration,
an image
inspirited
with life
imbued with love
perfected by a weathering rendition,
leading to a most surpassing
serenity
never absent
in a mind
constructed, perhaps wired,
through relationship
cemented
restored
beyond the physical,
promise
presentiment
everlasting
love




THE INVITATION TO COMPOSE

We invite the idea in,
the aperture wide open, the shutter 

     speed slow,
not for reward nor for gain -
more because it exists -
it's in need of a context we partially 

     provide -
an evolving conception full of promise 

     and hope,
development in process -
an image crystallizing and fixed,
invigorating our own lives and 

     imaginations.

Like Baucis and Philemon, we provide it 

     with sustenance,
nourishing its mind and soul,
apprehending in the emulsions a 

     distinctive ego - 
yearning to learn -
to expand its perceptions,
to discern that which is concealed.

The snapshots spiral from incarnation to 

     incarnation,
little time to frame them -
flipping like an old film,
occasionally freezing a shot in memory.
The mind becomes memory -
mindful magic perpetuated in a mental 

     web. 


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