Thursday, September 1, 2011

Night Stalking: Image + Text Collaboration

The superb jazz photographer Juan Carlos Hernandez and I collaborated on a text-and-image piece that Juan Carlos first posted on his site in July. For those of my readers who missed that post, here is my poem "Night Stalking" and the source of its inspiration, Juan Carlos's image Blackbird.


Juan Carlos Hernandez, Blackbird, 2009
© Juan Carlos Hernandez


Night Stalking

Red-winged blackbirds
unperched from cattails'

stalks bleed silhouettes
into the nimbus, the sky

parched into night
threaded into dream's

space, emptying
and filling.

© 2011 Maureen E. Doalla
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Thank you, again, Juan Carlos.

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6 comments:

  1. RuthSeptember 1, 2011 at 6:44 AM

    An energetic collaboration, Maureen. Wonderful, the boundless interplay between empty and full, between animal and cloud (and human and animal, and cloud).

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  2. Louise GallagherSeptember 1, 2011 at 8:00 AM

    I am looking forward to more of these collaborations Maureen -- you inspire me.

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  3. Juan Carlos HernandezSeptember 1, 2011 at 8:57 AM

    Honour is mine Maureen. I hope you will be inspired again by one of my photographs ;-)

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2011 at 1:05 PM

    i see them
    scattering the stillness

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  5. Joyce WycoffSeptember 1, 2011 at 6:43 PM

    What perfection of image and words.

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  6. S. EtoleSeptember 1, 2011 at 8:04 PM

    always on watch ...

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