Queens Doors near PS 1 (Thursday Doors)

wander
ing the streets look
ing for doors—not lost ex
actly but unfamil
iar with this strange
terrain

a dog
walker stops to
let me take my photo–
smiles, nods, moves on—no one
questions me, my
motives

tourist?
this is not my
neighborhood, so kind of–
but even at home, I
can’t stop looking
at doors

After getting off the #7 train on my way to PS1 recently, I decided to take a side street around to the museum. Almost all the buildings in the immediate neighborhood are big modern glass buildings, but this street always got my attention because it reflected what the neighborhood used to be. I photographed a few doors along the way.

This interesting building was situated in the middle of the block, between groups of houses. I like the Deco-ish design.

Wonderful bay windows on these houses plus an interesting geometric door design.

I went to see the Ralph Lemon exhibit which was closing soon. The paintings he calls “mandalas” were my favorites.

Also on display were a number of Lemon’s huge paintings full of tiny vignettes taken from life, history, and the news. Here’s one with a door.

Selma’s prompt for Tanka Tuesday this week was to write a series of Badger’s Hexastitch poems about what we like to do in Spring. I like to look for doors any time of year, but the weather is better for it in Spring than in Winter.

Any time of year is a good one to visit Thursday Doors, hosted by Dan Antion, for more doors from all over the world.