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"Olly olly oxen free!" This fly thinks he found the ultimate hiding spot. He’s out here posing like a philosopher on a leaf, completely blind to the spider in the shadows. 🪰🪶🌿🦉🤙🍁

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A dramatic, extreme close-up macro photograph of a common fly perched on a vibrant green leaf. The fly is positioned in a majestic, heroic profile view, bathed in cinematic golden hour sunlight. It looks remarkably dignified—almost as if it is posing for a high-end luxury cologne advertisement or a dramatic movie poster. Its large, compound reddish-brown eye gleams, and every single spiky black hair on its golden-brown torso is perfectly illuminated. It stares intensely into the distance, completely unaware that it is just a regular housefly sitting on a leaf, giving off an unexpectedly hilarious aura of absolute power and profound deep thought.
June 28, 2026 at 4:45 PM
jameshoustonarts.bsky.social
WHERE THE RUBBER MEETS THE SKY

#canadiantire #canada #streetphotography #whatisee #seeingisbelieving #eyewrite #inkthink #ollyollyoxenfree
November 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
jameshoustonarts.bsky.social
LONG/DISTANCE

There is the moment
There is the momentary
And the long/distance

©️ jameshoustonarts 2026
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June 17, 2026 at 2:27 PM
jameshoustonarts.bsky.social
NO RELIEF FROM YOURSELF...
Not today
Probably not tomorrow
Chin up

#streetphotography #street #eyewrite #inkthink #writeitdown #seeingisbelieving #thisandthat #ollyollyoxenfree #vanspc #vanspc_member #norelief
April 28, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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INCIPIENT RAIN

This morning
I swallowed the sunrise
Washed it down
With incipient rain

©️ jameshoustonarts 2025

#eyewrite #inkthink #writeitdown #poem #poetry #seeingisbelieving #vanspc #vanspc_member #ollyollyoxenfree #streetphotography #streetart
June 12, 2025 at 5:47 AM
jameshoustonarts.bsky.social
PATIENCE

Greet the enemy
Each morning, it takes so much
Patience, being me

©️ jameshoustonarts 2025
#senryu #eyewrite #inkthink #writeitdown #seeingisbelieving #poetry #poem #ollyollyoxenfree #patience #monochromephotography #blackandwhitephotography #bnw
April 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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LOCKING IT DOWN
Son, can you play me a memory?
I'm not really sure how it goes
But it's sad and it's sweet, and I knew it complete
When I wore a younger man's clothes
~ Billy Joel
#streetphotography #street #whatisee #eyewrite #ollyollyoxenfree
January 18, 2026 at 2:54 AM
jameshoustonarts.bsky.social
BOY OUTSIDE
"When I look at certain things, I find them attractive or interesting or beautiful, and I take pictures. Sometimes they're good, sometimes they're not so good..."

~ Saul Leiter

#streetphotography #streetart #eyewrite #inkthink #whatisee #ollyollyoxenfree
October 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
jameshoustonarts.bsky.social
SHADOWS & ARCHITECTURE
Momentary Agreement
Sinclair Centre
West Cordova Street
Vancouver BC

#shadows #architecture #street #streetphotography #vanspc #vanspc_member #ollyollyoxenfree #sinclaircentre #vancouverstreets #downtown #uptown #allaroundthetown
May 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
jameshoustonarts.bsky.social
SELF-STIRRED
Sure...
I'm online.
(You CAN see me, can't you?)
But I write with a fountain pen
On cotton and flax stationery
I stir my own coffee
And I learned
To tie my own shoelaces
A long time ago

©️ jameshoustonarts 2026

#poetry #poem #ollyollyoxenfree #writeitdown #eyewrite #inkthink
August 1, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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jameshoustonarts.blog/2026/07/11/1...

#streetphotography #streetart #eyewrite #inkthink #whatisee #seeingisbelieving #poetry #writeitdown #poem #forthelifeofme #ollyollyoxenfree #songwriting
1 IMAGE = 1 POEM/1 SONG
ONE IMAGE: ONE POEM: FOR THE LOVE OF A BOOK He discarded himselfAll that he possessedAll of the for-grantedsThat had been takenAnd all the chancesThat he took Strewn on the sidewalkRipped from carr…
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July 16, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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jameshoustonarts.blog/2026/07/11/1...

#poetry #seeingisbelieving #ollyollyoxenfree #whatisee #eyewrite #inkthink #writeitdown #song #songwriting #streetphotography #streetart #vanspc
1 IMAGE = 1 POEM/1 SONG
ONE IMAGE: ONE POEM: FOR THE LOVE OF A BOOK He discarded himselfAll that he possessedAll of the for-grantedsThat had been takenAnd all the chancesThat he took Strewn on the sidewalkRipped from carr…
jameshoustonarts.blog
July 11, 2026 at 8:25 PM
jameshoustonarts.bsky.social
REARVIEW REVUE
Theatre Through the Looking Glass
Vancouver BC

#photography #streetphotography #vanspc #reflection #ollyollyoxenfree #whatisee #seeingisbelieving
May 31, 2026 at 3:56 PM
jameshoustonarts.bsky.social
AMBITION

I could write entire
Books about what I don't know
Save for ambition

©️ jameshoustonarts 2026

#eyewrite #inkthink #writeitdown #poem #poetry #seeingisbelieving #ollyollyoxenfree #whatisee #ambition
May 3, 2026 at 2:45 PM
jameshoustonarts.bsky.social
ROTE

Repetition
Without the need of reason
Steps along the way

©️ jameshoustonarts 2026

#poetry #poem #eyewrite #inkthink #writeitdown #whatisee #seeingisbelieving #ollyollyoxenfree #rote
April 12, 2026 at 3:41 PM
jameshoustonarts.bsky.social
"S" Curves
Main & Broadway

#streetphotography #streetart #eyewrite #inkthink #whatisee #seeingisbelieving #ollyollyoxenfree #blackandwhite #streetpoetry
April 10, 2026 at 3:29 PM
jameshoustonarts.bsky.social
I HAVE BEEN AWAY

I have been away.
It was good. I have returned;
To leave, once again.

©️ jameshoustonarts 2025

#poetry #writeitdown #eyewrite #inkthink #whatisee #ollyollyoxenfree #seeingisbelieving
December 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
jameshoustonarts.bsky.social
This mornings' senryu...

When the going gets
Tough, the tough write poetry
It's always been thus

©️ jameshoustonarts 2026

#eyewrite #inkthink #writeitdown #poem #poetry #seeingisbelieving #ollyollyoxenfree #whatisee #senryu #haiku #houstonbc
July 19, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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AÑEJO

The glow of amber
Autumn knows the cost of time
In the age of days

@ jameshoustonarts 2025

#añejo #haiku #senryu #autumn #eyewrite #inkthink #writeitdown #whatisee #ollyollyoxenfree #seeingisbelieving #poetry #poem
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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REGARDLESS

The crane ascended
A participle dangled
I wrote regardless

©️ jameshoustonarts 2026

#eyewrite #inkthink #writeitdown #poem #poetry #seeingisbelieving ##ollyollyoxenfree #whatisee #regardless #haiku #senryu
August 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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I FORGOT TO BOMB DRESDEN
I forgot to bomb DresdenForgot to learn my sumsA slide rule meantI could skip outOn a day of KindergartenFrom time to timeOn a fine days’ permissionsIf it suited meTo let the rule slide I for…
jameshoustonarts.blog
June 10, 2026 at 1:33 PM
jameshoustonarts.bsky.social
“It is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in this broken world.”

― Mary Oliver
#poetry #seeingisbelieving #ollyollyoxenfree #whatisee #serious #alive
April 29, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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A PAEAN to HIATUS

#poetry #seeingisbelieving #writeitdown #poem #ollyollyoxenfree #eyewrite #inkthink #hiatus #paean
April 18, 2026 at 4:28 PM
jameshoustonarts.bsky.social
INTERNATIONAL

There is a switch on the dash
You can find in the dark
That will light your way home

©️ jameshoustonarts 2025

#eyewrite #inkthink #writeitdown #poem #poetry #seeingisbelieving #ollyollyoxenfree #fountainpen #international
September 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
jameshoustonarts.bsky.social
LEADING LINES & LAMPOSTS
Ferry Terminal
Horseshoe Bay, BC

#leadinglines #bcferries #horseshoebay #monochromephotography #blackandwhitephotography #bnw #ollyollyoxenfree #lamposts
April 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM