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“A Letter to Saint Braulio of Saragossa (585-651 AD, feast day March 26),” “A Letter to Saint Augusta of Treviso (≈ between 401-500 AD, feast day March 27)” & “A Letter to Saint Akelda of Middleham (died 800 AD, feast day March 28)”
“Your Wikipedia page states that you were ‘ostensibly an Anglo-Saxon princess of whom almost nothing is known and whose existence has been questioned.’
I don’t want to live inside a browser.”
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“Landscape Peopled with Figurines” & “Regarding the Question of Ownership”
“Many have been employed / unearthing the remnants of culture, / wrestling artifacts and knick-knacks from their cribbing – / but our frames are too slight / for the collection of fears we carry.”
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“Proximate Postcards (I)”
“I leaned towards him and ran my tongue across the rim of his upper lip. He trembled, inhaling sharply, emitting a thin clarinet-like whistle. The febrility of his response was disappointing.”
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“Things That Are More Than One Thing: on Alec Soth’s Photography”
“He liked to imagine that the world was providing him with signs … His goal in taking photographs was, in a sense, to give himself the slip, so as to rediscover the actual, populated-with-surprises world.”
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from I and Eucalyptus
“To what end do I use the eucalyptus? Is use without use-value still use, or does it better approximate recycling, where objects have more value in their transfer than in their being? If I use the image I see in a photograph, what is its purpose, being different from value?”
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“Selections from Country Music Frankenstein“
“Raise it for the pleasures of life, the bodies of men and women without excessive textual mediation, packed, even pickled, in the mystery of feeling. / The wood fires. These people at my cousin’s wake were overfed and suntanned and rubbing each other on the couch. They were some hedonists.”
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“Model Home: A Study Under Compression”
“Father says, ‘I’ll clear the walk.’ He clears the walk. / Errant weeds claw at the cracks. / Mother says, ‘I’ll decorate.’ She culls through catalogues and paint chips. / The paint chips. / Daughter says, ‘I’ll keep it together.’ / Which means: she is the glue.”
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“Idols: an Interview”
“But permit these queries, please, you who are soul in thing” … “Are faces found among your kind? Do two eyes suffice?”
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“Come Back”
“For there is always a child, one child playing hide and seek // until no one can find her and she is wandering / in woods, not knowing she is lost”
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from Asia Calling: A Photographer’s Notebook, 1980-1997
“I went with no agenda and no ‘assignments.’ I went to see what was going on and what things felt and looked like.”
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from Uniform
“Uniform started as an idea to catalog the different school uniforms of Nevis. It soon evolved through my desire to recognize individuality.”
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“There are limits,” “pictures in the album” and “this. Being very large”
“The idea of shaping tangled neurons and beta amyloid plaques was inspired by my desire to find new ways of expressing the absurdity yet rather beautiful intricacies of nature’s own designs.”
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Poems Inspired by “Nineteen Forms of Containment”
“In this configuration we see / at last the emptiness of a center / depending upon the multitudinous waves / which contain its dominance, and where / it’s sinking of its own weight …”
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“Map for a (New) World”
“So maybe the only possible map of the virtual friend universe is a star map. And it is up to me whether to see all those points of light as brilliant — or distant and cold. So today, I drew stars.”