Paulines and Paulisms

Photograph by Paul Hsu In the Nick of Time with the tour guide by my side I bear witness to these shades imprisoned in the rust of cell life a death sentence in one or two dimensions whose souls move live and breathe disconnected from the body recovered but dismembered in self-torture and beheaded by the jovial and mischievous mystery man the Green Knight who keeps his axe to the grindstone as Sir Gawain sweats for dear life and I am left to circumscribe the many meanings of a few green men whose necks are nothing if not bloody magical stumps unremarkable with the changing of the seasons by Paul Hsu 8-28-15

Photographs by Paul Hsu Embrace the emotions and the exhaustion the notes between the sights and the sounds the restlessness and the stop sign posts the subconscious and the sleepovers the unconscious and the universe who is within and who is without you by Paul Hsu 8-22-15

Photographs by Paul Hsu American Dream Machines Track the railroad and the historical Record of its backbreaking hard labor And unequal compensation between Immigrants Irish and Chinese who had seen News of the transcontinental divide. Strike up the conversation between cultures. by Paul Hsu 8-15-15

Photographs by Paul Hsu Seeing Things for Seamus Heaney Father and son As slow pilgrims In the desert. The holy sprites Here with us now. Father and son And holy sprites In the forest. This is water. Here we are now. by Paul Hsu 8-12-15

Photographs by Paul Hsu Desert Father's Pilgrimage Halfway through my life 2 walk and talk beside me Over paths by streams. by Paul Hsu 8-11-15

Photograph by Paul Hsu To the Great Regret Stalker of small fish and sample-sized game, are you on the hunt in what appears to be an oil painting or a photograph of such a rare occurrence in perceiving the real thing? Which language calls daily deep disappointment with God? With wings of terror and beauty? by Paul Hsu 8/6-7/15