Mike Foldes
Astonishing Colors
we can’t be everywhere.
but we can be wherever
the photograph takes us.
some capture the day,
the time, in black and white.
some in astonishing color.
travel with them, go beyond
your own borders into worlds
one can contemplate
only in one’s own time.
a shared image pouring
a draught of then and there
tasted over now and again.
(After the remarkable images of Fran Forman’s photography in l’Oeil de la Photographie.)
Michael Foldes (b 1946) is an American poet, publisher, author and businessman. Born in Baltimore, MD, he grew up in upstate New York, and earned a BA in anthropology from The Ohio State University. From 2004 until December 2019, he published RAGAZINE.CC, a free global, online magazine of art, information & entertainment. Foldes’s publications and projects include the poetry anthologies “Stopped Dead: The End of Poetry,” “In an Early Hour,” and “Sand and Snow”; the non-fiction “Sleeping Dogs: A true story of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping,” (Split Oak Press, Ithaca, NY, 2012), which revealed the existence of a .32-caliber pistol allegedly used as the murder weapon in the Lindbergh baby kidnap-slaying; “Sandy: Chronicles of a Superstorm,” a volume of poetry and images in collaboration with artist Christie Devereaux[1]; and, “Fashions & Passions,” a series of ekphrastic poems in collaboration with artist Christopher Panzner.[2] Panzner and Foldes recently completed a second series of 75 poems and images titled “Endgame”.