Video
Poem – Response to John Verghese’s Video
Bang!
The gunshot rings out – shattering the silence – people startle, look, buzzing like bees as the hive is disturbed –
The body falls.
Red blooms on white sand.
Aiiieee!
The scream rings out – shattering the silence – people startle, scream as well, run like deer as the herd discovers danger in their midst –
The body lies still.
The red sand dries.
The Blind Woman Smiles.
(She smiles and her mouth is the grinning teeth of a skull, her dark sunglasses are the eye holes, her skin bone. Death turns, and walks away.)
Bit confused what is a response to what… Perhaps both of these works are made by Alison, where the video is a response to John’s writing and the writing here is a response to John’s video?
Both of them are made by me, but the film is the one I sent to John for him to write a response to (It’s based on the Poem the Blizzard), and the poem is my response to his video. Hope this helps!
I find the bracketing of the last lines of the poem very interesting and would love to know the thinking behind that choice. I’m also very interested in the ‘as well’ in line 7!
As for the video: hard to comment, I think it would reveal itself more if there was something it was sitting in relation to… (such as another work…or even a title)