Articles/Essays – Volume 27, No. 4
Basilica
Frank’s photos—
are like his fiction—
show clean, hard lines.
Perspective and distance
form his creed.
Where others see lovers
he sees only shapes.
He once sacrificed a son
for the sake of composition.
“If a man did this right,”
says Frank,
“he wouldn’t need God.”
Frank’s photos line the wall
like smoking candles.
They form a shrine
to the dying light.