Pastels

The pastels—

what cloud could dampen

that yellow?

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Mary Cassatt’s pastels box at National Gallery of Art

Alone

Always remember
we’re zipped
together.

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Barnett Newman, “Fourth Station” (1960)

Al Bean

Al Bean left NASA
to paint
with an unconventional palette

heat shield particles
and Moon dust
and Command Module gold
mixed in with

the ordinary colors
of Earth.

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Now Playing–Apollo 11

Saved my tears
for the very end–
safe splashdown.

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Tower

To Fly

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Triumphant

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

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Moon in Stereo

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Afterthought

Small moon
drifting in the black:
afterthought.

#NaPoWriMo, Day 30. (Cassini image of Epimetheus, Dec. 5, 2014. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)