Something that is no more…

This pretty much sums up every poem I’ve ever written about photography… “It’s true that a photograph is a witness, but a witness of something that is no more.” (Roland Barthes)

Poetry as Prayer

I’ve always been very interested in the idea of writing poetry as an act of prayer or as a spiritual praxis. What is your favorite book, article, quote, or other resource touching on this? Here’s one of my many favorites…  

And not talk about it

“Anyway, I have it borne in on me that my business is to write and not talk about it.” ~ Flannery O’Connor

Memory

“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!” ~John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

Multiple Exegeses

“Never deprive the reader of opportunities for multiple exegeses.” C.D. Wright, Cooling Time