End Notes

Abstract

The title of this collection, End Notes, is the best description for what these pieces are: the rapid sketches from many notebooks, brought together to form a body of sounds and images, similar to notes in music, or short notes scratched out with pencil on the back of a napkin somewhere. These pieces are also about ends, possibly because it's hard not to write about endings, especially when you're thinking about beginnings. Time is cyclical, as is so often poetry. To write about life inherently involves so many sets of beginnings and endings that even examining a single point in time involves considering that that moment itself is not eternal. Even while ends often involve loss, they are also opportunities: for new beginnings, starting over, and change. With the SIP itself standing for the end of something, thinking about other endings seemed strangely appropriate, and brought with it the hope for many more beginnings and endings in the future.