J' arrive

Daido Moriyama. Bandaged finger. 1987.

what he calls himself, this old

two-beat codger on this spring

afternoon picking up the winter's

crop of twigs and bark from the lawn

to make it "look nicer" and to supply

the house with kindling next winter

for himself or his heirs, meanwhile coughing

and gasping, cursing the pain in his back,

thinking always of the days when

each year after the run-off he was in

the woods with the early trout lilies

and violets and with his ax, saw,

and canthook, doing a man's work

that has no connection with sex at all.

Brian Ulrich. Chicago, IL. 2007.

Trent Davis Bailey. Karen, Hotchkiss, Colorado. 2014.

Trent Davis Bailey. Compost, Paonia, Colorado. 2015.

Trent Davis Bailey. Black Canyon, Crawford, Colorado. 2015.

Terry Graham. Ruth, Whitley Bay, England. 2021.

The man credited with developing the first workable machine (tank) was Ernest Swinton, who persistently pressed his ideas for “some armored object, petrol-driven, and caterpillar-mounted, that would squash the nests of German machine guns as boots do those of wasps”.

Genieve Figgis. The Swing After Fragonard. 2014.