Look what Dave Bonta has made, from one of the poems in Forever Will End On Thursday. I love this!
As I wrote to Dave: I would never have thought of pairing the footage and the poem, but the footage speaks to the themes in the poem — solidarity yet separateness; deep wariness and alertness to the environment; the need for camouflage and the longing for connection — all things that characterize the ‘order of strangers and interlopers.’ The music resonates as well – made me think of yearning and unfinishedness. It’s an unexpected connection you made, but I think it works.
(The poem originally appeared at Escape Into Life.)
[...] April. Fortunately, Nic saw the logic in my seemingly strange choice, as she wrote in an email and subsequently blogged: I would never have thought of pairing the footage and the poem, but the footage speaks to the [...]
Extraordinary pairing! It works in such an unexpected way.
it does, doesn’t it!
Perfect. Such a striking poem and so well served by Dave and his two friends!
Thank you, Dick.
Haunting and deeply engaging, both the video and the poem.
Thank you, Risa.
It’s strange and wonderful. I wouldn’t have thought of the pairing, either, but it works especially well I think because these are such strange and foreign little creatures, unknown to almost all of us.
I hadn’t thought of that, but yes, I agree.