Dear Darkness
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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. |
Ula Wiznerozwicz. From Displacement, 2009-2014. Courtesy of the artist.
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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.