Poetic Photos | Amy Jasek

During April’s National Poetry Month ekphrastic project, I put out a call for our Instagram family to submit film photographs as potential writing fodder, with the invitation for poets to put some words to the images. So far, we have had no takers when it comes to people writing to any of the photographs that were tagged with #fscpoems, but the offer will stand indefinitely, so if you are just seeing this now and the muse hits you upside the head with inspiration, please let us know! A comment here, an email to Amy Jasek, or a message on our Instagram or Facebook is a great way to contact us with what you’ve made towards this!

I wanted to give a shoutout to the photographers who were willing to offer up their photographs to be written about; I know that can be nerve-wracking! Below, I present you with a selection from the hashtag #fscpoems that sing in visual verse even without any words attached.

Please check out the photographers’ feeds for more of their work! Thank you to everyone who submitted!


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Film photographer poetry enthusiast Amy Jasek lives in Texas. Check out her website for more of her work.

National Poetry Month, Day 30 | Tony Klimas, Todd Connaghan & Terri McCord

April 30, 2021

Photo by Tony Klimas & Todd Connaghan

Photo by Tony Klimas & Todd Connaghan

Superimposing 
by Terri McCord

 

               Is she 
the demure cast-down Victorian 
sculpture a bulkhead 

                holding back a future that is now 
a past 

a thing of 

weavings of           irregular bricks 
(that could also be a bulkhead) 

cemented with thick mortar 
and a moderned marquee marked 
Avenue    Avenue 

there is no parking, although no one
seems to have arrived or  
everyone has left 

or this is a theatrical set        to practice 
breath holding
or hand holding 

the almost hip-swaying
 statue might purl air 

 edge it with care 

or this is premonitory
the solidified ghost of a girl 
standing in as gate-keeper 
a small three-tasseled purse 
for her calling cards 
hanging low.

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This photograph is from a Members’ Film Swap that we did in 2017. It was part of this set. The rest of the project you can see here. See more of film photographer Tony Klimas’ work on Flickr and Instagram. See more of film photographer Todd Connaghan’s work on Instagram.

Read more writer Terri McCord’s work on Facebook.