Puddled Vignettes:
A Photo-Poem
Jessie Alperin
Volume One, Issue Two, “Air Bubbles,” Poetry & Visual Art
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
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.
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.