Let Them Not Say

Jane Hirshfield, poet

Wildfire – video link

The visualization are wildfire simulations of Rod Linn’s HiGrad Wildfire simulator, LANL.

They are created using ParaView and Artifact-Based Rendering which enables Samsel’s sculpted glyphs to be applied to the data.

Jane Hirshfield – about Jane Hirshfield

Let them not say: we did not see it.
We saw.

Let them not say: we did not hear it.
We heard.

Let them not say: they did not taste it.
We ate, we trembled.

Let them not say: it was not spoken, not written.
We spoke,
we witnessed with voices and hands.

Let them not say: they did nothing.
We did not-enough.

Let them say, as they must say something: 

A kerosene beauty.
It burned.

Let them say we warmed ourselves by it,
read by its light, praised,
and it burned.

Jane Hirshfield —2014