In One Continuous Motion

Visual Poem / 1min / 2023

Filmed during Lambda Literary’s Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ+ Voices.

Assignment: Create a one-minute short film based on another fellow’s chosen quote.

“In one continuous motion, my idea of myself turns inside out like a pond that flips upside down in the spring, when the old winter water slides under, and the earth-warmed bottom water rises. The underlife comes to the surface.... From the beginning I have wanted you, have wanted to sit beside you on our bed, touch you, feed you the jewels of pomegranate torn from the flesh of our lives. I have wanted to walk with you in that place where we are both at once, to lie down with you under the trees that have not yet begun to flame with the dividing sword by the water that shimmers with heat rising, risen to light.”