Twelve spires, held taut, landscape receding, giving way
to brick, to fire, to the crawl of car on concrete, that sound
of tire against gravel, a kind of consumption here too.
Between, strung yarn, Christmas bulbs, oriental poppies.
Little folded gifts: receipts in plastic bags.
We could strum it all like a harp, catch in our teeth
the song as it rises, we could push and pull against horizon
and let it all settle around us, the fire out, nothing left
but presents and ash.
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All poems are © Molly Sutton Kiefer and are first drafts, most likely.
All photos are © Beth Batson.
All photos are © Beth Batson.
camera lucida [L.; lit. ‘light chamber’, after camera obscura]. Optics. An instrument by which the rays of light from an object are reflected by a peculiarly-shaped prism, and produce an image on paper placed beneath the instrument, whilst the eye at the same time can see directly the pencil with which the image is being traced.
Studium: "meanings that are nameable," "given cultural meanings that we understand at once" (44)
Punctum: "a personal memory based not on the public archive but a private repertoire," "stings the viewer...some detail (some accident in the photograph)" (44); "occurs when there is a match between a signifier in the scene (in the photograph), and a scene in the memory" (45)
A month and a week later. This semester has been interestingly difficult for me, and for that, I apologize, with a renewed sense of what is important to me: writing.
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