Brian Orozco
NACRE
Folding and unfolding
wears grottos, pocks,
pinholes into the
map. Too the
home wedged into
dusked sky, fold
the Sunday paper
in half three
or four times
to prop open
the summer door.
The pearlescent thin-
king of a
child solves lines
of addition and
subtraction, playing out
arithmetic dramas, parting
clusters of uncooked
pinto beans in
the absence of
an abacus. A
wonder of yes
as much as
a wonder of
no: in the
absence of an
abacus we have
done a great
job at avoiding
tetanus so far
FETOSCOPE
I arrived at a notion of portraits
of light (as opposed to portraits
made with it) while walking
through a hilled cemetery
as sunlight grazed
headstones (like bottled
messages bobbing
on a surface), exciting
them like threads of precious
metals, blooming light
bulbs against
the blackening landscape.
Brian Orozco holds an MFA in photography from the Yale School of Art and an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is currently participating in the Scholar’s Program at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis.
NACRE
Folding and unfolding
wears grottos, pocks,
pinholes into the
map. Too the
home wedged into
dusked sky, fold
the Sunday paper
in half three
or four times
to prop open
the summer door.
The pearlescent thin-
king of a
child solves lines
of addition and
subtraction, playing out
arithmetic dramas, parting
clusters of uncooked
pinto beans in
the absence of
an abacus. A
wonder of yes
as much as
a wonder of
no: in the
absence of an
abacus we have
done a great
job at avoiding
tetanus so far
FETOSCOPE
I arrived at a notion of portraits
of light (as opposed to portraits
made with it) while walking
through a hilled cemetery
as sunlight grazed
headstones (like bottled
messages bobbing
on a surface), exciting
them like threads of precious
metals, blooming light
bulbs against
the blackening landscape.
Brian Orozco holds an MFA in photography from the Yale School of Art and an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is currently participating in the Scholar’s Program at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis.