NORMAL SEQUENCES
IN A FABULOUS BUCHAREST

-A poem
by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
on old Bucharestian photos (collection 1995-2002)
by Calin Niculae-

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MOTTO
(NORTH AND SOUTH IN BUCHAREST)



Last night this city shattered another storm.
I tried to photograph some true lightning,
but the show took place to the east,
so I’ll take pictures yesterday.
If you consider that my street is the centre of the Earth,
then you have over here
the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere at midday,
between two wind blows.

-Calin Niculae-



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In Bucharest
the professional astronomical observatory
was born in 1908
in the forest of a park.



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As a consequence
the Moon appears
in unpredictable places.



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Sometimes she rises
from lakes.



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At other times
she becomes a globe
in the Christmas Tree.



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In his turn
the Sun can be a globe
in any kind of tree.



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Parks are inhabited
by rainbows.



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Some of the trees
practise contortion.



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Other trees
blossom castles.



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Flowers practise
military discipline
and liberal beauty.



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Leaves practise
philosophical debates
on benches.



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Birds speak with people
or practise kayac-canoe.



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Although an agglomerated metropola,
Romania’s Capital includes
a national village,
the village museum,
to which you can go
by swimming.



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Over there,
you can find people
who manufacture stories.



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Close to them,
the press palace
launches ships.



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You can also go
from darkness to light
by boat.



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There are
wood trees and stone trees
that want to fly.



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At the same time
some of the stairs
go directly to heavens.



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In exchange,
pharaonic buildings suffer
because they cannot pierce
more sky.



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Antennas sing clouds
and even the Moon.



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And sometimes the Moon
becomes a trained animal
who escapes from the circus
to taste celestial triumph.



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Before being arrested
by untouchable policemen,
naive balloons
color puddles
while joyous trees
cold the Sun.



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The Sun…
Too few observe
that in fact
he is carried
by a crane.



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Since people cannot eclipse
the closest star,
they are proud to eclipse
the Great Chariot
by using motorized chariots
and artificial stars.



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But don’t worry,
this is just a collection of
normal sequences in a fabulous Bucharest,
so there is nothing alarming
for the real world.



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Design: Florin Stancu
© 2011 SARM
(Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy)