Where Image Abides

by Mary Elizabeth Kibler

ISBN-13-9880770074082

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Where Image Abides was an entirely huge surprise ... more like a gift from the Muses.

 

Where Image Abides is the black and white edition of the Corpus Omphalos, Poetry and Art Collecdtion 2012. Once I held the Corpus Omphalos galley in my hands, I knew right then and there that I would also publish a grayscale conversion version, if you will, of the art work and fell in love with Where Image Abides.

 

The title is from a poem, May We Dream, and also a photo-graphic digital art work, this book's front cover art, of the abandoned Beverly Bridge in central Washington; an attractive nuscance for such as myself.  Climbed up on the old train trestle, snow flurries drifting across the bridge, immense rush of the Columbia River below, sloggy skies suddenly filling with caw and cackle as dark flutters gathered at the other end of the expanse.  A murder of crows. It was unmistakable they were holding council. There've been other times the oddest circumstance, unusual creature or peculiar surface, a sprint of light or shapely shadow, appear without invitation as I review such days and nights and all the inbetween limen caves of experiences quite unplanned and, so, unfold as they will. These. These are the gems. These are the songs. And words with innate meanings of the universal kind. These are the poems and works of graphic art selected for collection like a Go master picks up white shells on a beach to keep.       Read more ...