Now I lay me down
Photographed by Jennifer Weber at Temple Baptist Church cemetery on March 31, 2012
Lenoir, North Carolina
Allissa: An American Girl
Photographed by Jennifer Weber on May 28, 2012
Columbia, South Carolina
Here lies an American hero
Photographed by Jennifer Weber at Fort Jackson National Cemetery on May 23-28, 2012
Columbia, South Carolina
Revelation 21:4
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Photographed by Jennifer Weber at Fort Jackson National Cemetery on May 23, 2012
Columbia, South Carolina
In a dark time, the eye begins to see,
I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;
I hear my echo in the echoing wood —
A lord of nature weeping to a tree.
I live between the heron and the wren,
Beasts of the hill and serpents of the den.
What’s madness but nobility of soul
At odds with circumstance? The day’s on fire!
I know the purity of pure despair,
My shadow pinned against a sweating wall.
That place among the rocks — is it a cave,
Or winding path? The edge is what I have.
A steady storm of correspondences!
A night flowing with birds, a ragged moon,
And in broad day the midnight come again!
A man goes far to find out what he is —
Death of the self in a long, tearless night,
All natural shapes blazing unnatural light.
Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,
Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?
A fallen man, I climb out of my fear.
The mind enters itself, and God the mind,
And one is One, free in the tearing wind.
In a Dark Time by Theodore Roethke
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Ivy leave you
Wilson mausoleum photographed by Jennifer Weber at Riverside Cemetery on March 25, 2012
Asheville, North Carolina
County Line Congregational Christian Church Cemetery
Hampton, GA
