HOW TO REPLACE WORRY WITH TRUST
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You live in Fool’s Valley. You are the valley and no one is fooled. You are the valley and
I am your fool. You are the valley. I am a fool. You are the valley and I am the valley and together we curve: apostrophe S. The fool is long gone and it wasn’t his valley. It isn’t ours, either. We’re just white folks who live here. I drove to Fool’s Valley to see you, but you were already gone. I thought I knew where I’d find you and I was right. The other library, on the east side of town, hanging out with that librarian, Megan. I said what are you doing with that librarian, Megan. Nothing, you said. I read lots of books. |
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Sarah Malakoff. Napoleon, 2013.
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Carol Guess is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose. She teaches in the MFA program at Western Washington University and lives in Seattle.
Sarah Malakoff’s large-scale color photographs are examinations of the home as both a refuge from and at times a re-creation of the outside world. She has had solo exhibitions at Camerawork Gallery in Portland, Oregon; Miller Yezerski Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts; The Vermont Center for Photography in Brattleboro, Vermont; the Sol Mednick Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Massachusetts; and Plane Space in New York, New York. She received 2001 and 2011 Fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a 2011 Fellowship from the SMFA, Boston. A monograph, Sarah Malakoff: Second Nature, was published by Charta Art Books in 2013. She is an Assistant Professor at UMass Dartmouth and her work can be seen at www.sarahmalakoff.com.