Hg sent us this poetry postcard, created from one of his own photos. He writes,
The building is an abandoned World War II look-out post on a remote peninsula in the north-west of Ireland. The Irish were neutral during WWII and referred to it as “The Emergency.” I too occasionally find myself in an unofficial state of emergency, a result of the tension between my opposing desires for both rural isolation and urban community. The ambiguous tone of the words, set against the seductive starkness of the image, is entirely deliberate. I have yet to resolve this conflict.
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5 comments in “the emergency”
November 15th, 2008 at 1:23 am
Really like this, very powerful.
November 15th, 2008 at 9:01 am
I love the ambiguity and the photograph is beautiful.
November 15th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Love this. A momentarily entirely satisfying representation of perennially difficult feelings – which I guess is exactly what we all look for in poetry and in pictures.
November 15th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Wonderful lime green grass against the dark sky. The brick structure looks defensive, and matches the first part of the poem. Nice how the turning around is printed in white, showing the opposing feelings.
November 20th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
LOVE this….so powerful, so deceptively simple.
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