Poetry By Hobart Taylor
Photograph
Listen to Hobart reading his poem:
In old Arabia 'twas thought that light came from the eye. Inside one burned a sun, and all about was made up, by reflection. Likewise some Greeks thought there was a fire in the eye lit, by Aphrodite. How warming are these anti-heliocentric views, these assertions that consciousness illuminates? Most famously Henri Cartier Bresson described the decisive moment of a photograph, 'a conflagration of comprehension dissolving the bounds between things as they are and as they are becoming.' Hold two things or more in mind, and then let them go up in smoke. That, which we choose to illustrate, in memory and dreams and soul sensate, reflections, or essences, that radiate
Hobart Taylor grew up a Black Anglo Saxon Protestant (BLASP). His earliest memories include packing canned goods into boxes to send to Freedom Riders in Mississippi in the early 1960's.
He has been a newspaper and radio reporter, bookstore manager, teacher, artist manager for Jazz and Folk artists, and currently has a jazz radio program and two podcasts.