Nance Van Winckel
Van Winckel looks into the world's shattered glass and animates the cultures, histories, human dispositions, and decontextualized landscapes found there. |
BESIDE OURSELVES cover image by Susan Bennerstrom Everything Falls Away The #86 train, its track, and the track’s gully toward the sea, around the mountain, and the mountain falling rock by rock over the track, and across my ancestors’ lifetimes--before the gulls and the Stark White Sand Ages which fell away into the Gray Ages, the Dark Ages. Sea of black anonymity. Those gulls fall. The civilized and the unfed, their cry and feathers falling. First a tremble, a wink of light, a blur. The slide of your palms’ warmth across my cool hipbones. Down. Sea on a Sunday. Coffee in cups from the subdued life. Slow gestures of the gulls, top of the 6th on a radio, and one man out. Heaps of the new world around our feet, which we step out of and fall away from too. BESIDE OURSELVES was published in 2003 with Miami University Press. |
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