Tag: poetry
Dawn 3
Cricket. Forest. Old Farm Road. August 20, 2015. From Wendell Berry’s ‘The Clearing’ (my underline) 2. Vision must have severity at its edge: against neglect, bushes grown over the pastures, vines riding down the fences, the cistern broken; against the false vision of farm dismembered, sold in pieces on the […]
Dawn 2
Dawn. With Smith and Rio, Old Farm Road. August 19, 2015. selection from Part II, Sabbaths 2005-2008 in Leavings: Poems, (p 92-93) by Wendell Berry Found your hope, then, on the ground under your feet. Your hope of Heaven, let it rest on the ground underfoot. Be lighted by the light that falls freely upon […]
Dawn 1
Dawn. August 18, 2015. Wendell Berry, The Wild Rose Sometimes hidden from me in daily custom and in trust, so that I live by you unaware as by the beating of my heart. Suddenly you flare in my sight, a wild rose blooming at the edge of thicket, grace and light where yesterday was only […]
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Sunspot, Water, Banana Leaves and Utensils in Kitchen. Bois Jolie, Haiti. July, 2014. The late and great Palestinian poet, Taha Muhammed Ali, from So What: new and selected poems, 1971-2005 (Coper Canyon Press, 2006): Where Poetry hides somewhere behind the night of words behind the cloud of hearing, across the dark of sight, […]
Eurema Lisa
Butterfly. Watershed. (possibly Little Yellow, Eurema lisa). Near Corporan, Haiti. May, 2009 Hope. Walking along a watershed in the central highland regions of Haiti, we saw scape after scape (mountains beyond mountains) of almost bare land. But things are changing and the butterflies returning, in this case, thanks to the guidance and land management of farming cooperatives […]
Hanging Floating
Hanging, Floating (Auget Jean Calou and Marichelie Josef). Cange, Haiti. January, 2008 Auget and Marichelie hanging from a rafter, with their cousin in the background, echoing my act of taking a photograph. A photographer considers not simply the formal relationship between light and dark, but also and always how light and dark allude to what we do […]