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Visible Cities
Kathleen Wall
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Kathleen Wall
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Visible Cities captures moments of joy and sadness that occur each day on city streets, exploring the humble triumphs and mundane tragedies of urban life. Photographs taken in locales from Regina to Venice, from Ottawa to Paris, inspire poems that reveal the unexpected beauty of the everyday experiences shaped by the cities we inhabit. Veronica Geminder's photographs peer into back lanes, admire people absorbed in public art, and consider those ruminating on their own reflections in the glass expanses of office buildings. Kathleen Wall's poems delve for the story behind the photograph, nurturing the moments that would otherwise quickly pass us by. Lose yourself in Visible Cities and uncover the vitality and complexity of urban life
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Your mind under glass
Chicago
This might be your mind
with its brick facts
built up one by one,
from hunger to calculus,
from the slipperiness of sex
and the stock market
to the day you began
Act III, the day the alarm
didnât go off
and you learned
what it means to stretch
into mortal thoughtsâhow
joyous and how grave!
You might want to question
the windows: do you look in
at privacy and nakedness,
at secret desires, rogue ideas;
or out toward weather, scandal,
power-plays? You keep taking
expected routes to avoid climbing
down the fire-escapes
to wrestle with wisdom.
But the black paint is thick,
scarred with use, rough
on your hands. You catch a whiff
of the alley and often decide
you donât want to jump that far.
What you donât see each day
is how green it is.
Thereâs a tower you keep
trying to climb.
But youâre out of shape.
It diffuses light everywhere
in shadows and highlights. Much
of the world comes to you here,
longing for a little face time,
confused
by the glass, drawn
by the open stairway.
Some days you baulk
at the idea that everything
your mind has turned over
has purpose. You await
some ordinary event
that will illuminate the universe
like the afternoon sun
blazoning a handful of bricks,
marking the edge
of something youâd forgottenâ
exactly what will measure
or enclose your life
like a frame.
II
Questions in Our Pockets
Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that weâI mean all human beingsâare connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
âVirginia Woolf, Moments of Being
Questions in our pockets
Boston Common
I
The moment is never simple. When
you choose the flattest stones and skip them
four times into oncoming waves. When
you read, and looking up see your book
alive in the afternoon, its pages
unbound, spread in the dark
clematis purple of the world. When
you are as skillful with a shovel and a word
as with a saucepan and a song. When
you walk down an unlit hallway in the frail shadows
of November afternoons to look f...