VIDEO POETRY

Video Poems

How it Will Feel to Finish

I think we've all experienced this situation of desperation to get across the finish line and breathe again. (Music- S.G. Lewis "Dusk")

First Snow

This poem began as an entirely different metaphor but ultimately speaks to the need for collective racial colorblindness. (Music- Cafe de Anatolia "Enta Omri", Billy Esteban mix)

Keller, H.

This is a poem dedicated to Helen Keller and her extra-human capabilities in communication. (Music- Bonobo "Cirrus")

Burial of the Dead Language

This theorizes about potential reasons for a language going extinct. Fact: the text in the washing machine actually comes from the near-extinct Potawatomi language. (Music- Cybertribe "Finding the Magic Oyster")

A fate for the single

This poem is dedicated to fellow pre-ordained perpetually "singles". (Music- Ants "edit Crying over pros for no reason")

A Lonely Swarm on Wheels

This is a poem for my fellow transit-riders and the unique experience of being completely surrounded or entirely alone at any given point on a daily journey. (Music- Bassnectar "Reaching Out")

Girl With a Spoon

This poem was built from a small one I had written ten years ago after an experience visiting and learning from informal settlements in Nairobi (all my own photographs). (Music- B-Complex "Girl With Flower")

Saudade

The nostalgia or deep melancholic longing for something lost or not yet experienced. (Music- Sunlounger "Balearic Breakfast")

The Memory Flee

This poem is about memories that escape when we don't want them to, or more importantly, when they take control and escape when they should. (Music- Teho "Space Explorers")

Odds

This poem is about the "luck of the draw" in life. (Music- Jay Mellock "Sahara Fragments")

Eternal Feast

This poem investigates the metaphor of time as bread. (Music- Bright Angel Deep House Progressive 2021)

The Assignment of Sounds

This poem ponders the evolution of a relationship, and if sounds of objects and experiences related to it were not as we knew them. (Music- Chicane "Lost you Somewhere")