#lenore horowitz

[an-apology-for-idlers]

You never know 
What will change the world- 
a word lightly spoken,
 a touch from a stranger,
 a glance from a woman 
in a red dress, 
or a flower opening in your garden.
 What you do know
 down deep in your bones 
is that the cells have 
lined up in a new arrangement,
 muscles grown 
where before was weak and hollow,
 and when you woke up this morning,
 something else was on your mind 
because the old furniture had moved
 around to make room.
 A momentary alignment of planets 
has opened a door somewhere.
 You never know how or when,
 only that it means
 Everything.

Parallax by Lenore Horowitz // Photography  by Ruth Thorne Thomsen

[100pitchersofhoney]

“Toy Camera”

- Lenore Horowitz

If only life could be like that sometimes, just blurred at the edges, slightly out of focus, a tiny bit fogged, and those people in your frame caught looking, harmless, like cartoon characters, and the surprises you couldn’t see when you snapped the shutter, guessing at focus, exposure— how the sun glows softly, and shadows spread like coffee, and all life’s multitude of grays shimmer like silk scarves and dance in summer’s breeze.