Melissa Ginsburg’s The Adder reads as a collage of thoughts – dark, moving, and searching.
In this final installment of The Year of the Poet, the program flow and individual videos reflect this stylistic approach.
Imagery includes film, photography, and found footage, and all use music or sound as an equal channel of information to the visual, creating this final body of work that investigates and interprets The Adder.
Melissa Ginsburg, The Adder
May the pond be free
from its companion pondwater
blackening. the pond’s edges
slipping as it does
to the sides behind
below a swimming adder
May the air and the sky be excused
from one another as a child
from a table as a table
from its planes the house from
its frame Free
garden from dirt
garden
from sprouts waxing
white and long under layers
of mulch Part spring from cold part
wood from grain part grain part monstrous
shout Part splinter
from wood splinter from flesh
Toss it in the fire
divorce fire
from its color its tremble and
its burn
Divorce: does a door
need a wall to become itself
to separate
from to open to allow
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