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Monthly Archives: October 2018

The Color of Three Stones: Gold, Lapi lazuli, and Marble

By Richard A. Peña | Published: October 22, 2018

What such a glorious world made of light and shadows, luminous intensities, with shades of magnificent and wondrous color.  The colors of day transition from dawn to sunset, regardless of the day, yet more often or so, the observer takes such splendor as the normalcy of everydayness.  Be that as it may, such beauty of […]

Blessed is the Night | Division Street

By Richard A. Peña | Published: October 1, 2018

[Short Libretto-Ballad] Blessed is the night. Go down these city streets, down Division Street, way down Division Street, where the wind sways the autumn trees, like an autumn song.  So blessed is the night.  Oh, the leaves rustle all around my feet, streetlamp lanterns, dancing shadows, nocturne patterns, with rod iron bones and brownstones, echoes-of-elevated-trains, […]