‘MEANING OF RAVENS’
Photographers Christine Stoddard and Jacob Baron are artists and filmmakers based in New York City. Together, they have collaborated on many films and videos. This still is from their feature-length experimental film "Her Garden," which can be found in full at YouTube.com/@StoddardGold.
MEANING OF RAVENS
The universe is sick of my solitary seasons; its storms are radical acts of presence & summer
unsettles every prayer inside of me as it turns slowly. I can’t stand the feel of it, the metaphor of
it all. Pry it open / rupture it. I am numb. I listen to women talk of string lights and DJs as they
lightly laugh and say depressed. I haven’t figured it out yet, how I’m different from them or why
august tastes like strawberry and collapse. Some women are poetry waiting to be written and
some are the curled-up pages of old liberty books, earmarked chapters of love letters written
hundreds of years ago. Reincarnated again and again. Unfinished business.
Ashley Edwards is a Canadian writer, writing into and out of chaos. A devoted poet yet a curious writer of any genre. A strong conversational tone and fearless voice. Join her on a journey into madness, surrealism & one day an MFA. Publications include Rowayat literary & wingless dreamer anthology, WILDsound + more. She studied poetry at the university of Toronto and feels fortunate to be on the staff at a small press. As an immigrant, she has luckily found a home in both Canada and poetry.
