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.
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.
MARIA TERRONE
I know the old, cramped ER and the expanded, modern one, befitting its category as a Level 1 Trauma Center. I can still see the doctors and nurses scanning screens at the computer nerve centers and ministering to the sick and injured, including handcuffed patients with police escorts from the Rikers Island jail.
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