Text by MARIA TERRONE
Images by WHITNEY LIGHT
Desire in Jackson Heights from w_light on Vimeo.
Maria Terrone is the author of two poetry collections, A Secret Room in Fall and The Bodies We Were Loaned, as well as a chapbook, American Gothic, Take 2. Her next book, Eye to Eye, will be published by Bordighera Press in 2014.
Whitney Light is a photographer and writer from Winnipeg, Canada.
MARIA TERRONE
The sign painted on the truck is a phrase / I contemplate under a vine-covered pergola. / You might call this walled city garden / my hermitage—the faint notes / of a live flute from an open window / harmonizing with a robin’s song. / Sirens break my reverie.
ANDREW HUDGINS
Preachers are always sure that it’s up or down / heaven or hell. And hell, they could be right / or death could just be like light switched off / and there’s no soul to be set free, judged, / and sent to heaven, hell, or Tuscaloosa. / Some preachers, I’ve heard, don’t believe in hell. // Uh, who said that?
MARIA TERRONE
On 88th, the street where I lived as a girl when an hour could seem an eternity, it would be years before I met the young man who pointed out that those numbers, turned on their sides, had a special meaning.
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