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Dear Darkness

Forgive me & all
my missed calls.
 
We are living
in what old
 
folks call trying
times, I mean
 
it’s Monday,
it’s that season
 
of the year the sun
sinks sooner
 
than I like.
I love most
 
about sunset
how it suggests
 
distance, a further
place where the
 
world curves
beyond what I see.
 
Before I knew
what to call you
 
I knew you. Dear
darkness, are we
 
headed someplace
new, someplace
 
not already in
our bones? I still
 
have those poems
you said to read,
 
the ones I haven’t
bothered with, 
 
too busy with
what my folk swear
 
is a phase, a spell,
some sort of down-
 
hearted song. Dear
darkness, is that
 
you at the piano,
you who troubles
 
the keys? Is
another word
 
for sorrow
consistency?
 
How we water
from our eyes
 
and call it anything
but persistence
 
beats me. I love
most the waiting
 
rooms, their still
dying flowers.
Picture
Ula Wiznerozwicz. From Displacement, 2009-2014. Courtesy of the artist.

Jeremy Michael Clark is from Louisville, Kentucky. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Callaloo, Vinyl, The Offing, Scalawag, Prelude, Horsethief, and elsewhere. He is a Cave Canem Fellow and he has received support from The Conversation Literary Festival, Squaw Valley, and the Fine Arts Work Center. He currently lives in New York, where he is an MFA candidate at Rutgers University-Newark.
Ula Wiznerowicz (b. 1986) is a Polish documentary photographer currently based in Amsterdam. Her photographs have been exhibited widely with solo shows in Italy, England, and Poland. Working mainly within portraiture and social documentary photography, Wiznerowicz documents a particularly unique Polish/English perspective using the camera to explore narrative conventions with a powerful subtlety and poise. Her careful handling of subjects and their emotive stories has won her acclaim with most recently a Surrau Photo Win, shortlisted for the 2014 Daylight Photo Award, a Jurors Pick FotoVisura Grant, along with the Ideas Tap Portfolio Award in 2012, Channel 4/Saatchi Gallery Prize, and D&AD Best New Blood Prize in 2010. Wiznerowicz received a B.A. (Hons) Degree in Photography from Middlesex University (2010). A short documentary film about her work was made and aired by Channel 4.
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