WILLY CONLEY’S books include Space is deaf like me, Photographic
Memories, Plays of Our Own, Visual-Gestural Communication,
The World of White Water, Listening Through the Bone, The Deaf
Heart, and Vignettes of the Deaf Character. Born profoundly deaf,
Conley is professor emeritus of theatre at Gallaudet University in
D.C.; www.willyconley.com
Red delicious Back then it was always the same. Insides tuned to a melancholic B minor. Flavor sinking into nothing. Holes from one worm or another. Skin, like the plastic tags you aren’t supposed to remove with teeth, but I always do. Stuck now, like a complaint between incisors.
After Words sourced from “Flood Tide,” chapter one of Under the Sea Wind by Rachel Carson Morning broke over the dunes dark one minute, then bright buff. The sea oats gleamed, trembled, and returned to green. The gulls, gray splotches against the spreading light, soared, wheeled white, and dove. Barking,
NAJIB JOE HAKIM is a documentary photographer, artist, and photography instructor. Hakim is the president of the board for the Network of Photographers for Palestine; a founding member of Class Conscious Photographers; recipient of the Rebuilding Alliance Storytellers Award for a trilogy of Palestine projects; a Political Art Fellow at
Before Time A number of years ago, I drove over the pass on an Oregon logging road: My brother, my son, my girlfriend, and me. Cutting through shards of razor-blue sky until We escaped the fir and pine, and Threw a foam mattress On the breathless spreading desert floor.
