We are standing at the switch, ready to flick. 52 weeks of Friday Night Lights pinned to the screen… incandescent, glorious. This project has been a creative highlight in my writing career. Together, Ashley, Cindy and I have produced a proliferation of poems and images that speak to each other in a unique way. And it is the unwritten dialogue that has kept the three of us on the edge of our collective seats week in, week out. Checking my inbox on a Saturday morning will no longer be the same… there will be less light. But this project will reappear in other guises… for now, it is time to go back and tinker, reimagine and revel in the glow. Thank you to everyone who has followed this project and commented along the way. Your words have been welcomed and along the way have generated some interesting discussion between the three of us. Now to let the light speak one last time…
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The geese have flown early this morning
leaving behind them storm clouds and
the purple of abandonment.
I become as bruised as fallen fruit
and as redundant. Returned from the garden
my thoughts are tenebrous:
the broken spade, crescents of
blood under fingernails, one
large stone t0 hold in the light.
GN
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CK
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I have spent all my Christmas money.
It was chocolates and electronics,
two hundred thirty-eight thousand miles to the moon
never staked out with surveying pins
but there it is, a known number
almost like your phone number
and no farther than a stick pony can ride
if you got one
ribbonned and ready, under the tree.
AM
THANKS FOR A GREAT YEAR
and in 2013 will there be
no ash?
no cinders?
no Friday night-lights?
none?
We’ll be back with something in the new year JDub! Thanks as always for your enthusiasm!
Congrats on a very creative year the three of you…it’s been fun.
Thank you, Charles! So glad you have been following this little project!
Thanks Charles, your comment each week has been deeply appreciated!
Tenebrous!! Love!! And the photo!! Thank you for a wonderful 52 weeks, Cindy and Graham
Thanks A… it has been the greatest thrill!
Lovely work all three of you!! I have enjoyed all 52. Please continue with something like it in ’13.
We will be sure to cook up some new project Luke. Thanks for your support mate.
I become as bruised as fallen fruit
and as redundant…such fantastic imagery… and…two hundred thirty-eight thousand miles to the moon….whew….way to go…smiles
Thanks Claudia. Your support throughout the project has been really appreciated!
This has been a most enjoyable collaboration
We all feel the same way BB! Thanks for your support.
Congratulations on a wonderful year, Friday nights will be so much darker now.
It’s been amazing… thanks for your support Mark!