Garden of Eden
Don’t upset the applecart in the Garden of Eden Lest the forbidden fruit would escape the snakes And roll down the long spiralling stairs To land among the rubbish and the flowers Love is blind… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
To the speechless the dummies and the clueless Pink Lady is the commercial name of an apple Whether the Hesperides Garden or the one from Eden The same old stories share many different names Life goes on, followed by the Saints The fallen angels and a cohort of sins That will become tomorrow’s virtues Photo […]
Stalls crumbling under an avalanche of fruit and greens The Garden of Eden’s open gates and a wireless social network Seen from the Western colonial pedestal, Africa was the beggar in rags Now they enjoy the freedom and the food that Europeans queue for Imagine Southbound boatloads of asylum-seekers crossing the Mediterranean As The Book […]
Like tropical storms that run on faraway horizons In the tales of old mariners who survived many a wreckage About islands with enchanting names and mermaids unafraid Drowning slowly in crystal blue lagoons Drinking the milk from the coconut The forbidden fruit of a new garden of Eden Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 […]
Seen from above as we came to land in Guangzhou A perfect line-up of cubicles in a square plot next to a factory Like a sandbox abandoned by a disciplined god’s child Or the servant’s quarters in a discolored Lego Garden Of Eden Photo Hugh Ardoin ‘Les Enfers Pavillonaires’ Gallery