Photographs and Poetry

Last week Sam started working with her speech therapist Meghan on writing poetry in relationship to her photographs. Sam had mentioned wanting to do this in her "therapeutic story" and Meghan told me that they had started. Meghan also explained the process, which was that she had asked Sam to pick out about 7 or 8 of her photographs from the box of her work that I had brought in from home. The box contained about 70 photo's all of which Sam had not only taken herself, but had printed up in our bathroom in Brooklyn way back when. After Sam picked out the photo's - she then focused on a couple to look at and talk about. Meghan then recorded and wrote down what Sam said. In the whole box, there were only two photo's of me, and Sam apparently picked one of them out and used it as the first piece to write about. Sam gave her permission again for me to share her poetry on this blog. The first photograph is a picture Sam took of me a long time ago in the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. The other photograph she wrote about is a picture of two trees, also from the Gardens.

(3/3/2010)
Marcie in the Park _

She sits on a big rock
looking at me
the trees are trembling
the grass is flat
the rock holds her up
the petals are not familiar
with where Marcie is sitting

(3/4/2010)
Window Sill

Two trees
standing still
entry to the trees
we went
fishing