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Pics of my very modest GARDEN.

One of my ongoing projects--which also comprises the first one-third of my full length poetry collection entitled Afterimage--is poetry in form based on family photographs from the last two centuries. Included below are some of these photos. I chose to work in form because: 1) the poems come to me this way and 2) seem to better evoke / imitate not only the black and white photos as an art form (i.e. transcendent expression within an outline), but also fit the tone, mood, and shadow of the captured images (the times, places, people). Susan Sontag, in her book On Photography, says: "The force of photographic images comes from their being material realities in their own right, richly informative deposits left in the wake of whatever emitted them, potent means for turning the tables on reality—for turning it into a shadow. Images are more real than anyone could have supposed."

Tornado, picture taken by my grandfather outside of Clinton, OK -- June 8, 1951

Second from right, my grandmother (bottom)

The awe-inspiring fear I hope to exude in the classroom

Quartet

Plowing

Spilled milk

Three generations

Jamboree

Boy and landscape

How about more current stuff?

Jackie, the girlfriend

Jackie, with new knight in shining cardboard

Jaclyn Cruikshank and Benjamin Vogt

Jackie the fiancee

Jackie the bride

When I was in middle and high school I did this:

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