"Placing haiku and photography in conversation with one another, falling is the one thing i is a cumulative, seventeen-syllable exercise in surrender; an active practice of yielding to physical, emotional, and psychological environments. Spanning 2015-2017, it is comprised of poems and images, ranging in subject from the follies of institutional oppression to love in the afterlife, through a black, queer intersectional lens. This collection is an intimate inquiry into the body, dreamscapes, and the aesthetic force of sidewalk stains"--Publisher's website
"This debut collection represents the birth of documentation and reflection in a personally new, active, and practical way. enabled by technological advancement, all of the photographs were captured on my iPhone 7 - and later iPhone 7 Plus. the collection's few poems not scribbled into one (of my many) moleskines, or scrawled onto a napkin, or playbill, were typed into the Notes app, on my phone. the ability to utilize such readily available technology, which typically resides in my back-left pants pocket, allows me to - as poet, theologian, and philosopher john o'donohue, suggests -- 'draw alongside the mystery as it's emerging, and somehow bring it into presence, and into birth'."--Colophon