Fragments:  A Life

There was a time, once, when a 

world renowned art gallery and

museum prized his photographic

work, chronicling their fabulous

collections of sculpture and paintings

of centuries past, of landscapes and

still-lifes, portraits and interiors

portraying a historical recollection

of nature and the nature of human

history.  From rude peasant life in

farming communities to imperious

visages of armoured, bannered 

horsemen courageously embarking 

onto the battlefield, the fearsome 

traditions of war, plunder and rape 

unleashed on canvas.  Greek legends

of immortals sculpted in softly 

gleaming marble. And his own
creative visions immortalized by a

commissioned portrait.  Now, in

back of an antique shop, there for 

sale, the dusty, dispensable oil portrait 

and alongside as a bonus, the photos, 

the peerless rarefied ignominiously 

tumbled from its proud pedestal.