Nefertiti Among Us
Photo Poem MontageThe TV’s neutral male voiceover
covers what we love about Egypt
and their pharaohs: house-sized rocks
that formed the pyramids dropped in place
without machine, sentries to this day
guarding the embalmed dead, the slight
queen’s…
Photo Poem Montages
Collaborations, Photo Poem Montage, SliderIn seeming counter-intuition to the usual process of listening to poetry and allowing each reader to supply his or her own internal imagery, I've been experiementing with making photo poem montages set to music. I've been blessed to work closely…
She Dressed in a Hurry (for Lady Diana)
Photo Poem MontageShe dressed in a hurry
or perhaps never wore a slip. The photo
the press loved: a girl in a skirt, distance
between her thighs backlit by the sun,
a circle of children in her care birthed
by other mothers. The obvious
didn’t escape…
Nefertiti on the Astral
Photo Poem Montage, PoetryNefertiti on the Astral
I did what I came to do. Dead, I have the luxury
to know: the locus of power is not the body,
though how lovely: my daughter’s daughter’s
etc., daughter, sitting beside the Nile, sun falling
on the brown…
Amelia
Photo Poem Montage, Poetry Blood-wing blackbird,
deserting again the nest
of spice, to burn,
in the circle of my domain:
the open miles of sky,
my body—and edges
of a stranger’s forged
wings--meeting
at the cusp of dawn,
valves sweetening....
Amelia,…