one day soon, i'll load 35mm film into my Holga.
Monday, September 21, 2009
this is the kind of loveliness i chase every day. . .
i rarely capture it this beautifully inside of a studio.
natural light is so wonderful.
natural light is so wonderful.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Monday, December 10, 2007
My Flickr Account: Artsy Photos to Your Heart's Content!
To see most of my work with the old Canon AE-1, follow this link.
(I'm working on incorporating it into this blog-space more seemlessly...)
Thursday, December 06, 2007
seeing.
"Seeing."
break out over the wet, orange
papier-mâché leaf-lined sidewalk.
The white crystals settle along
the Vena Cava of magnolia leaves,
like tobacco in a rolling paper.
These things, i had never seen
until my young adulthood:
like the soot-black of wet bark.
Monday, November 26, 2007
"Orange Blossoms"
Orange Blossoms
They rest, like gleaming starfish, mouthing light-
bulbs, fringed in gold-faced sticky fillae,
expectant. Clustered like stars on the forked
trunk, among the ovate, bottom-heavy
leaves, dark green, with crenulated margins:
scalloped like a cloud, or doily. Petals
joined, nested like ivory measuring
spoons: tablespoon, teaspoon, one-half, one-quarter.
One-hundred thousand of you, pollinated,
palming life. The decision has come: wet,
smooth, black bark sheds the “not viable”—the ones
with insufficient light, or hosts to moths’
homes. Luminescent petals slide to the ground:
the ill-begotten, eleven-week blood
pulp of a pitiless mother tree.
Arachne's Child
This poem was inspired by the story of Lakshmi Tatma.
Arachne’s Child
Arache’s child, a god-head
in her own village—the more arms
and legs the more wealth,
what is it they cultivate, anyway?
Eight teeth show in her splitting laughter,
Ember-curls around her gold-pierced ears.
Her strong hands clapping, grasping air,
dancing, with her polished black eyes.
She is a beauty, by any standard. The hairs
whisp between temple and white-collared
dress. She is happy, in the way children are happy.
The BBC news-anchor is sober-voiced,
camera panning from her joy-face
downward, the “parasitic twin” they call it—
four additional atrophied limbs dangle
from a truncated, headless body.
The eight-legged one, the girl-spider.
She carries a joined spinal chord,
perhaps spare lungs between all
those legs. Arachne’s child,
with a womb-wrought parasite.
The question is whether beauty will live.
For My Brother
For My Brother
(a ghost villanelle)
What we are is not so different, you
and
gently across the world, the trees, the sky.
Yours track, mine quivering across the lines
of pen to paper, or stitches fingers slide.
What we are is not so different, you
and I. Steady-handed tracers: moved, high
by the intricacies of our art, slid
gently across the world, the trees, the sky
by palpable passion. The names fly
from my lips, yours: Latinate conifers spied.
What we are is not so different, you
remind me, platinum fletching putty
poised on the arrow’s shaft, then the vein laid
gently across the world, the trees, the sky.
Fletching is not unlike sewing, shooting
not unlike writing: pinning down to look:
what we are is not so different, you and I,
beings born to the world, the trees, the sky.
The Kitten
The Kitten
She coos like a bird to you
and your answer is a cocked head
and golden eyes
trained on her warm and climbing body.
Again and again
she sings without opening her mouth.
You are not her father.
Neither of you have met a bird,
not really,
just seen them, suspended among leaves
in the hornbeam, through the wrinkled
old glass of our window.
But she calls their call to you
and you listen.
All children must make the same song.
"You Are"
"You Are" (an unfinished poem,dating from May)
You are of sacred fluids.
The only landscape with which
I could replace her cool, damp one
is yours—balmy. The shade seems
rarer here, without the rails
of skyscrapers or brush of willows
to hide your face
so I crawl where I am known,
beneath your warm belly to lie
pressed and oddly free. I know
its smell, contours, and the inexplicable
kindness of your eyes, the blue they take on
in semi-darkness,
the blessed lashes.
And I find no need to declare
our love to a wider world.
I only scale your shifting body,
while you do the same,
then grow quiet and still again.
Look directly and speak to me.
I left her broad walkways
only for the tightness of your arms.
You are of sacred fluids.
The only landscape with which
I could replace her cool, damp one
is yours—balmy. The shade seems
rarer here, without the rails
of skyscrapers or brush of willows
to hide your face
so I crawl where I am known,
beneath your warm belly to lie
pressed and oddly free. I know
its smell, contours, and the inexplicable
kindness of your eyes, the blue they take on
in semi-darkness,
the blessed lashes.
And I find no need to declare
our love to a wider world.
I only scale your shifting body,
while you do the same,
then grow quiet and still again.
Look directly and speak to me.
I left her broad walkways
only for the tightness of your arms.
In case you're not tuned in, you should be!
NPR presents whole concerts as mp3 files on their website: http://media.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15681603.
Most of the tapings occur at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. and are definitely worth listening too!
Thursday, November 15, 2007
The Trees
"The Trees"
The rain stains their gathered thighs
charcoal-black, like any number of
dryads lying back on one another,
grown as one, to wear fire-hair.
November and the trees look
more like balding men with
silvered orange mutton-chops.
Someone pasted yellowed leaves
and lamplight to the sidewalks.
Such joy to find my childhood--
browned grass and conifers--
replaced with Virginian opulence.
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