This haiku and time-lapse film began to take shape just before midnight and was completed at 3am on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
In solidarity with women worldwide, here's:
'I see you, gas, lit,
Wings clipped, words. Arise, Phoenix, Tempestuous bird.
It was the Audre Lorde who said that;
“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.”