This evening, Valerie and I collaborated on our first film-poem. She wrote an excellent summary of the process on her own website. Here is the video and the poem:
Piece Work
Winter, and the loom
of the sky has been
picked to wire.Light etches its memories
through the long strands
of twilight.
We inhabit
the shell of the world,
and carry it gently.It carries us too,
the echoing stairwell,
the empty glass aflame.Look what I have brought–
sand from a bullet-pocked
beach, ribbon from a dead
girl’s hair.
It reaches
through shadow play, gesture,
the conspiring laughter
of birds strung high overhead.We dwell here, suspended
in ether, vibrating
the strands of the web.