Souls Have Shapes

I have a series of pictures I call "Souls Have Shapes." The title comes from the first stanza of a poem, "My Sisters," by Stanley Kunitz:

Who whispered, souls have shapes?/ So does the wind, I say./ But I don't know,/ I only feel things blow.

Kunitz did have two sisters who died as young women. The poem goes on to describe his sense of them trying to comfort him from beyond, and, in the end, he them. It's a beautiful poem.

To me the first stanza suggests the spirit within inanimate things, a core theme of my photography.

Today's Plain Sight is a Souls Have Shapes picture. I'll leave it to you to see why.

Location: Metropolitan Plant Exchange, West Orange

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