Puddled Vignettes:

A Photo-Poem

Jessie Alperin

Volume One, Issue Two, “Air Bubbles,” Poetry & Visual Art

 
 
 
 
 
 
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the air saw its reflection, sighing, with the touch of earth —  rustling with the leaves, so they could see themselves too — to rest for a brief moment together before the earth, water, and sky went separate ways

 
 
 
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Out of the desire to duplicate, the wavering branches are gently preserved in the reluctant expiration of a puddle. Their bodies disappear as the water fades, resurrecting the intonations in the gravel, until they melt again with the rain.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Jessie Alperin is a graduate student in the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art at the Clark Art Institute. Her research focuses on the long nineteenth century, with a particular emphasis on the symbolist movement, works on paper, and the relationship between text and image.