Photo blog 66

"After the tea party." Dolls on roof, Portland, OR, 5 September 2011.

I’ve officially decided to start a series on abandoned dolls. I just can’t describe the emotion I feel when I find these things — nostalgia? sorrow? grief? curiosity? — but the emotions, like the dolls, fascinate me.

I didn’t realize until I got home and uploaded these to the computer that this roof actually held two dolls — the naked, sunbathing Barbie was hiding until I looked closely at the photos. Here are some close-ups.

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Published by Samuel Snoek-Brown

I write fiction and teach college writing and literature. I'm the author of the story collection There Is No Other Way to Worship Them, the novel Hagridden, and the flash fiction chapbooks Box Cutters and Where There Is Ruin.

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