–The Last Magnolia, June 9th, 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Found on the grounds of Richmond Academy in Augusta, Georgia. My mother went to high school there. School had long been out. And we were taking one last drive around Augusta before leaving for home. I picked up this giant magnolia leaf on the way back to the car after photographing the exterior of the building. The driveway into the school was deserted except for the huge magnolia trees lining the road. The leaves rattled in the wind and crunched under my feet. One lone man sat against a brick pilar as we drove away.
Monday, June 11th, 2007
QM: Notice the potential haiku in your post?
one lone man sitting
giant magnolia leaf
as we drive away
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Here’s another:
school had long been out
giant magnolia leaf
crunched under my feet
🙂 That’s fun!
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QM: now I know what I meant to comment about when I first came over here. The magnolia leaf reminds me of the tropics, which reminds me of the similiarities of the South to other parts of the Americas. I don’t know where I’m going with this, so I’ll leave it at that.
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Oh, another comment. There’s a sense of being off balance every time I look at this photo, like I’m falling, falling, falling. I love that about it, the angle/perspective from which you shot it and then the disparity between a window with shutters in the background and a leaf that is almost bigger than the window with shutters. It’s an odd sensation.
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It is an odd sensation, the huge leaf against the blinds.
There are so many plants in the South that were transported from tropical climates. I was keenly aware of that this trip.
Haiku – thanks for pointing that out. It’s somehow a part of me now.
Dream Haiku
inside a dark sleep
words caress my memories
and fight their way out
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