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The prompt for Week 17: recycled/repurposed

Part of a big El Anatsui exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum
last year, this is called "Drainpipe" and was specifically
tailored to the space it occupied (as it is wherever
it's installed).  These are tin-can lids strung
together with copper wire. (There was another huge
work there that Anatsui made using bottle caps.)
Beats adding at all to the landfill, doesn't it?

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The prompt for Week 16: somewhere you visited

This is Quito, Ecuador—my daughter Katie
and I overnighted here on our way
to and from the Galapagos.
Lovely city, great food, but the altitude
takes its toll: At 9,350 feet, you get
only 60% of the oxygen you'd breathe in
at sea level (where I live).  My legs felt like
they each weighed about 50 pounds!

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The prompt for Week 15: street corner

Well, this is the Venice version.
There are no traffic lights, of course—so where
there's a blind corner, they mount a mirror.
(I'm sure it happens sometimes,
but I've never seen a boat accident here.)

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The prompt for Week 14: "stairs"

My favorite time of year in my Brooklyn brownstone
neighborhood is probably spring—specifically, those few
weeks when the flowering trees burst into bloom—
then leave their blossoms absolutely everywhere.

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