Wednesday, June 4, 2008

What Remains


What Remains. I like the ambiguity of that Sally Mann title. Even seeing the photographs doesn’t lessen the puzzle.

Everything is blooming. A symphony of songbirds. A giant oak fell across the powerlines in last night’s storm. The scurry of a rat in the attic. Things to do, decisions to make. I am still, but stillness is impossible. What Remains.


I speak the phrase three times with alternate punctuations.

What remains? What remains. What remains!

Question. Answer. Proclamation.

2 comments:

  1. Nice tones in the trash can shot.

    I think it would look good as a large print.

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  2. As an English major I very much appreciate your last line. WHAT remains.

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