I hear them singing and lying

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The photographs were taken on January 13th.

(Posting title is from the poem Portrait of an Old Woman on the College Tavern Wall by Anne Sexton.)

Why coming this direction?

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The photographs were taken on January 12th in Petikko.

(Posting title is from the poem Against the Kitchen Wall by Eleanor Ross Taylor.)

And for the eye

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The photograph was taken at Sipoonkorpi National Park on January 7th.

(Posting title is from the poem A Shadow on the Wall by Gottfried Benn.)

And watch the planet's purposeful turning

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The photographs were taken at Sipoonkorpi National Park on January 7th.

(Posting title is from the poem Scavenging the Wall by R. T. Smith.)

One night from the other side

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The photographs were taken in Petikko on January 5th.

(Posting title is from the poem The Wall by Laura Kasischke.)

Entangled in one another to form

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The photographs were taken at Tropicario in Helsinki on January 4th.

(Posting title is from the poem Rattlesnakes Hammered on the Wall by Ray Gonzalez.)

You bear witness without speech

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The photographs were taken at Tropicario in Helsinki on January 4th.

(Posting title is from the poem On the Wall of a KZ Lager by János Pilinszky.)

On the other side of the fence

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The photographs were taken on January 4th.

(Posting title is from the poem Wailing Wall by Ali Liebegott.)

Something there is that doesn't love a wall

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The photograph was taken on January 3rd.

(Posting title is from the poem Mending Wall by Robert Frost.)

I follow straight without complaints or grief

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The photographs were taken on January 2nd.

(Posting title is from the poem Life by George Herbert.)

But it may not say what you hoped

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The photographs were taken on January 1st at Petikko.

(Posting title is from the poem Hymn to Life by James Schuyler.)

And I hear the ticking of time, the whirring

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The photograph was taken on December 31st.

This morning I walked for almost two hours, enjoying the winter landscape. Temperature was at -10 °C, and a bit of sunshine was visible occasionally.

(Posting title is from the poem I Wasn’t One of the Six Million: And What Is My Life Span? Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai.)

Sleep is long, and dreams are straying

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The photographs were taken on December 30th.

Today the temperature dropped to -13 °C. Depth of snow is 32 cm. Feels like winter.

(Posting title is from the poem A Psalm of Freudian Life by Franklin Pierce Adams.)

Footprints, that perhaps another

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The photographs were taken on December 29th.

(Posting title is from the poem A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.)

For heart-beats and for fire-heats long ago

Flower

The photograph was taken at the Sealife aquarium in Helsinki on December 26th.

(Posting title is from the poem The House of Life: 36. Life-in-Love by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.)

Seeking the object of another's fear

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The photographs were taken at the Sealife aquarium in Helsinki on December 26th.

(Posting title is from the poem The Triumph of Life by Percy Bysshe Shelley.)

But least is he who, with enchanted eyes

Water

The photograph was taken at the Sealife aquarium in Helsinki on December 26th.

(Posting title is from the poem Life by Edith Wharton.)

Room where I exist and look at things and eat them

Lights

The photograph was taken on December 25th.

(Posting title is from the poem And when I say poem by Rebecca Wolff.)

I see myself in a forest-bordered field

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The photographs were taken on December 24th.

(Posting title is from the poem The Confession of St. Jim-Ralph by Denis Johnson.)

Detailing the weather conditions, the migrating

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The photographs were taken on December 24th.

(Posting title is from the poem At last, to be identified! by Rebecca Hazelton.)

I learned through painful iteration

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The photographs were taken by lake Odilampi on December 23rd.

(Posting title is from the poem Am I Special by Rebecca Wolff.)

Everyone seeing, I cannot

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The photographs were taken at lake Odilampi on December 23rd.

(Posting title is from the poem Were it but Me that gained the Height by Rebecca Hazelton.)

Ratified in the glow of the big correction

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The photographs were taken on December 22nd.

(Posting title is from the poem To Love thee Year by Year by Rebecca Hazelton.)

We go to war to feel free of the fear

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The photograph was taken on December 22nd.

(Posting title is from the poem "Love my enemies, enemy my love" by Rebecca Seiferle.)

Piece out its starved design, and fill my vase

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The photographs were taken in Sipoonkorpi national park on December 17th, at the swamp near Viirilä.

(Posting title is from the poem The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church by Robert Browning.)

Something I do not know again

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The photographs were taken in Sipoonkorpi national park on December 17th, after a snowfall. There was 10 cm of snow on the ground. The snow was mostly unbroken.

(Posting title is from the poem Jenny by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.)

I’m grateful that I’ve never had to do

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The photograph was taken on December 16th.

This week in four days I have got eight hours of exercise, walking in the snowy landscape. Today I even saw the sun.

(Posting title is from the poem Praying Drunk by Andrew Hudgins.)