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.
Stage Jazz Photography by Juan Carlos Hernandez
6 comments:
An energetic collaboration, Maureen. Wonderful, the boundless interplay between empty and full, between animal and cloud (and human and animal, and cloud).
I am looking forward to more of these collaborations Maureen -- you inspire me.
Honour is mine Maureen. I hope you will be inspired again by one of my photographs ;-)
i see them
scattering the stillness
What perfection of image and words.
always on watch ...
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