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
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.
ZOE VALERY
In the margins of the Strip, planes shimmer in and out of Las Vegas. I photographed this periphery, populated by plane watchers. Why they watch and why I write seem to be connected by a tenuous link that became clearer as the afternoon transpired.
MARIA TERRONE
As a Bronx kid at a homeless shelter, he watched / a peregrine falcon devour a pigeon on the windowsill, / and what began in violence leapt to awe, / and awe begat beauty. / He’s grown to be a birder who shares our passion. / Through the lens, he sights a warbler / and the flash of a goldfinch who’s migrated North, / whispering his excitement.
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