Peter Schwartz
Portraiture, From Diagram 8.6
I've built portraits with my time
native portraits, rattled portraits
idle and forced portraits that hung like masks
over my more fragile portraits
I've dressed and redressed
my limbs in the necessary chemistry
to give each portrait its ration
of sunlight; I've hid my fledglings
like black teeth beneath my housepillows
praying for magic, practicing my small private
language as the expectation of fluency
printed newspapers in the dark
words that flooded the pavilion
and often broke into sour grain.
Peter Schwartz’s photography has appeared in such online literary journals as: CELLA’s Round Trip, eyeshot, Litterbox Magazine, and The Prick of the Spindle. Poor and utterly in love with his camera, he will never give his Kodak up to the bad guys, never.
Visit his online gallery at: Sitrah Ahra.
Peter Schwartz is also the art editor at Dogzplot and recently became involved with Full of Crow's PRATE Interviews Project.
Photography in this issue of Full of Crow Fiction Quarterly, October 2009:
1. Coercion
2. Street Musicians
3. Mod
4. Retreat
5. Throne
(above) Coercion
(above) Street Musicians
Mod
Retreat
