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.
ANDREW STEINER
Divine showing? Demonic encounter? Guilty autoerotic experiment? Whatever it is, Lucian climbs down changed, unable to share what has happened to him yet persuaded the dull scrim has been torn off the world and he has glimpsed a sublime and terrible reality.
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?
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