April Retrospective
Scrivener April 30th, 2008
April Retrospective, originally uploaded by Scrivenings.
I had so much fun with April’s self-portraits. I took on both the challenge of pairing a poem each day with my portraits and decided that I would spend the month minimizing how much my face showed up in my portraits (though I didn’t really decide on the latter until most of the way through the first week). My face will have to come back into the selfies this month, though, because I’ve decided to join in on Moustache May again this year.
1. 4.1: So, in this world, may many others be, 2. 4.2: We wondered at the size of the world in the dark, 3. 4.3: peering out of my deadlight looking for another, 4. 4.4: How to use this body, 5. 4.5: It was after all no small achievement, 6. 4.6: away from me, toward me, 7. 4.7: It took dominion, 8. 4.8: a curious conception, 9. 4.9: telling the story of my life, 10. 4.10: a certain colouring of imagination, 11. 4.11: There you have there you have the whole poem, 12. 4.12: Aging, everybody knows it; or, Self-portrait as a professional photographer, 13. 4.13: I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I shall, 14. 4.14: A tune beyond us, yet ourselves, 15. 4.15: feasting on every green moment, 16. 4.16: beautiful for as long as you live, 17. 4.17: just one caress without pity in it, 18. 4.18: if you look long enough, eventually you will be able to see me, 19. 4.19: the shadows of this loneliness gripped loose dirt, 20. 4.20: need can blossom into the compensation it requires, 21. 4.21: Beyond the reach of one’s own understanding, 22. 4.22: The world offers itself to your imagination, 23. 4.23: whistle that sing that yell that spell that out big, 24. 4.24: a dream portending loss, 25. 4.25: a landscape stripped of people and language, 26. 4.26: so steeped in the music of a voice speechless, 27. 4.27: Forgive me, 28. 4.28: I am not a painter, I am a poet., 29. 4.29: You don’t know what work is, 30. 4.30: a miniscule smidgin of possibility
Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.
I don’t think I can adequately express how much I have enjoyed the poems that you have introduced me this past april and their illustrations –
Thank you.
You have had a great month. I really liked reading the poems every day and I think you showed a lot of depth and complexity by avoiding face shots.