Three photographs, by Louie Clay

Three photographs

Louie Clay

I took this picture with the web cam in my

computer on the day after a surgeon

removed squamous cell carcinoma from

the top of my head.

I wrote a poem about it,

which I read here.

I took this picture in 1983 while teaching at

the Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute.

The grandmother and her child doze in the bright

sun on a very cold day by the entrance to the

innermost part of the emperor's palace. It

demonstrates freedoms that emperors never

allowed. The grandmother's drabness contrasts

with the child's colorfulness as the old order

changes and makes way for the new.

My husband Ernest Clay fried these

as part of a simple feast.

We have lots of feasts. Here’s a picture of us taken

last July 26th when the Supreme Court legitimized our

39-year-old marriage

Louie Crew's photography has appeared in many publications.

Editors have also published 2,288 of his essays and poems.

Crew is an emeritus professor at Rutgers. He's in

Wikipedia.He has edited special issues of College English

and Margins. The University of Michigan collects Crew's

papers.