In the work featured in Flight 24.1, witnessing is a form of creation. A girl lifts her dress to show the stars. A filmmaker turns the camera inward, seeking truth through exposure. A poet gathers remnants of spring from the soil: a goose’s neck, a grandfather’s hunger. A prayer becomes a river, and a field of bruised youth readies itself for snow. The writers in this Flight excavate memory from the detritus of migration; call on divinity through the ordinary, the suburban, the acerbic; linger at the threshold of desire and dissolution; and offer a pastoral stillness that anchors us to time’s slow turning. This Flight moves between the intimate and the infinite, between body and myth. We are confronted with what it means to perform, to be seen, and to reclaim authorship through the lens. This Flight celebrates the vitality of perception and reminds us that to see is to risk transformation. We hope you linger with these pieces as long as they have lingered with us.
Read more about the contributors for v24n1 here.
