Look & See Me: A Book of Thoughts Feelings and Words

By Raymond Cooper

Look & See Me is a book about thoughts and feelings experienced at the time through an eighteen-year-old boy growing up in Australia but wishing to be elsewhere.
We follow his journeyand thoughtsto America and home again.
And only upon returning to Australia does the author find his love for photography, which enables him to share these thoughts and dreams with others in a more tangible medium.
This is both a written and visual journey over the years, of loneliness, melancholy, despair, and hope.
It takes the reader from an eighteen-year-old boy to an almost sixty-year-old man, through the years, sharing both his poetry and his images.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: May 15, 2013
• ISBN: 9781466993044

Raymond Cooper

Raymond Cooper has traveled extensively throughout his life, and though spending much of his time in Hawai’i, also lives and writes in Aireys Inlet, Australia. He has worked as a lifeguard, flight attendant, photographer, actor, film director, gardener, and more. His skills as both a photographer and a writer allow him to share his most private thoughts and times with us. During a recent interview on a Boston radio program he was asked “what comes first – the words, or the image?” He answered “the feeling”

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© Copyright 2013 Raymond Cooper.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

ISBN: 978-1-4669-9302-0 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4669-9303-7 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4669-9304-4 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013907887

Trafford rev. 01/31/2014

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CONTENTS

ONLY THOUGHTS

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

WINTER COMING

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

TIME

FRIDAY NIGHT

SUNDAY MORNING

SUNDAY NIGHT

TUESDAY

THURSDAY

SECOND FRIDAY NIGHT

SECOND SUNDAY NIGHT

PASSING THE TIME

one

two

three

DRIVING TO ALAMEDA

five

six

seven

eight

nine

BEING READY

ten

eleven

OPENING DOORS

PARK STREET

twelve

FROM YOU

JUNE 3

and now

one.

two.

three.

four.

five.

I’ll meet the mailman.

six.

seven.

eight.

nine.

ten.

For Adam

   don’t be afraid

      to dream

      to fall

      to live

      and to remember

It seems the time

between hello and goodbye

grows shorter with each day.

I know not at