Typewritten Poetry Snapshots with @riojones7
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Poet Rio Jones (@riojones7) of Albuquerque, New Mexico isn’t sure if he writes poems because the real world is too much, or not enough. “Poetry helps me reach a bit into that other world — that world we all live in while we are in between sleep and consciousness,” he says. Rio first started writing poetry as a kid when he became smitten with Little League baseball. “I remember coming home after practice one night and writing about the dust rising off of the infield on a foggy morning. After that, I sort of just never stopped.”
On Instagram, Rio shares photos of the poetry he writes on his typewriter. “I always enjoyed writing on my typewriter, but in this digital world it seemed pointless because I’d ultimately have to type it up on a computer to share it,” he says. “A picture really does say a thousand words, even when the picture actually has only 40 or 50 words in them.”
Rio’s dreams for the future are as diverse and creative as his poetry. Currently pursuing a master’s degree in Latin American Anthropology at the University of New Mexico’s Latin American & Iberian Institute, he dreams about “not owning a car or a piece of land, just a plane and a boat with a little bed in it.” Perhaps in an effort to spend more time between sleep and consciousness, he also believes the world would be better off without the second and minute hands on clocks. “At first it would be difficult to adjust,” he says. “But in short time, I believe humans would return to the realization that progress is separate from efficiency, that production is not synonymous with exploitation, and that time is better understood as change than numbers on a wheel.”
(Source: instagram)
