A video poem called “Wave”

I’ve been all about experimenting with the new, really easy-to-use, AI-enabled video editing tools to see how poems might come to life in new ways. Here, I stitched together some visuals (simple creative commons video clips from Unsplash) along with audio of me reciting my poem “Wave” to see what the tide might wash in. This poem is a reflection of my time spent in a red-brick rowhouse in Pittsburgh’s East end neighborhood Lawrenceville, where I spent my early twenties during graduate school. The house faced a more than hundred-year-old stone wall, the North edge of the Allegheny Cemetery, a gorgeous place filled with trees, birds, deer, you name it. “Wave” is a love poem to that home and the stories from within it. (Turn audio on. 🔉)