Wednesday 14 July 2010

Gardiner Ave.

I've been wondering what to do with words
in relation to photographs

in relation to seeing.

I thought writing on location

would be WRITING on location, not

shooting the puddles, the effects

of overnight rain. I got the idea

from re-reading Gardiner

as rain dreg and going there

to collect what the dregs

might be.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ah yes, Gardiner: Hillsdale's 'Premier' Avenue, with the tallest houses, nicest trees, and most quaint paved alleyway cut-through to the rest of the city. Rich with water and valuable alluvium in the summertime, (from the 2nd floor, at night) within earshot of downtown trains, engines accelerating up Broad Street into the distance, and the twinkling lights of the Roberts Plaza. -AW, former resident

Gerald Hill said...

Thanks, AW. I was an Anderson boy myself but had one good friend on Gardiner and a girlfriend on Gardiner. There was supposed to be a matching alleyway cut-through, as you call it, on Anderson but years ago a homeowner persuaded the City to seal it off, claiming it was always filled with kids and garbage.

Brenda Schmidt said...

This play of words and photos really works (I thought I had posted a comment before, but I guess not. My mind is a puddle. Apuddle).