by Douglas L. Simmons
print 1 6" x 8"
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FALLEN
by Douglas L. Simmons
print 4" x 5" 1
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Fallen...
...In 1972, while observing from the deck of a tour boat plying the Rhine river in Germany, sailing past the remnants of other ages I gazed upward to see two large stone towers and a smaller turret still standing next to them, all that remained of a once massive fortress.
As I drew with pencil on my sketch pad, I pondered in my mind how the mighty structure must have loomed above the river before it had fallen.
Judging by the cliff face and the hill which rose behind the remains of the stonework I sketched in what might have once stood above me but, in reality, had been confined to the rust of history, oxidized away by time, fallen in all but my imagination...
--Doug L.