Lake Poetry

The lake is different from the sea, and the poetry for freshwater is far fewer in number than its salty sibling.

I was thinking of this stanza from Lucille Clifton’s poem:

the earth is a living thing

“is a black shambling bear
ruffling its wild back and tossing
mountains into the sea…”

Something about a handful of the days from this past month resonated with the words to this poem. I first came across this poem by Clifton in a book entitled, “Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry,” edited by Camille Dungy. It’s a a remarkable collection of poetry that I can’t recommend enough.

See all of the photographs from the last five years of the Lake Series here or follow along as I explore this and other projects on my instagram account.