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The Poem She Wrote
How 47 Words From a Stranger Rewrote My Story THE NAPKIN AT TABLE SEVEN ✍️ I was waitressing at a diner in Brooklyn, twenty-three years old, three months behind on rent, recently dumped via text message by a boyfriend who described me as "too much" which is a phrase that sounds specific but actually means nothing except that the speaker has decided you are not worth the effort of genuine feedback, and I was carrying plates of eggs and toast to table seven where a woman approximately seventy years old sat alone reading a poetry collection with her coffee and I envied her stillness, the way she occupied space without apology as though she had earned the right to sit quietly in a noisy diner and read poems without justifying her existence through productivity or performance, a right I had not yet discovered I also possessed ☕
By The Curious Writerabout an hour ago in Poets
The Photograph
How Capturing Tragedy Changed How I See Everything THE CLICK THAT HAUNTS ME 📷 I have been a street photographer for twelve years and in that time I have taken approximately three hundred thousand photographs of strangers in public spaces capturing moments of beauty, humor, tenderness, and the ordinary poetry of human life in urban environments, and I have always believed that photography is an act of love, a way of saying I see you and this moment matters even though you will never know I noticed, but on a Tuesday afternoon in September I took a photograph that challenged everything I believed about my art and about the ethics of witnessing human suffering through a lens rather than engaging with it directly, and the image which I have never published and which exists only on a hard drive I keep in my closet has become the defining photograph of my career precisely because it will never be seen by anyone except me 😔
By The Curious Writerabout an hour ago in Photography
