Anecdoche (© Tif Holmes) is a conceptual photographic art piece that I created in 2016. I wrote the poem below based on this art piece. Prints can be purchased by reaching out to me directly.
and thus begins the Unknowing
the Unlearning
the Untangling of love and anger
into just love
Just
love.
bursting from hearts much too big
too sensitive
too knowing
too…
too strong to be stopped
from this loving,
this breaking open and
pouring out of light into
the darkness
Form and no form, my heart
shatters into the blue-black Void—
splinters of immense light
surging across the vastness
like lightning
© Tif Holmes
anecdoche
n.
a conversation in which everyone is talking but nobody is listening— instead merely overlaying words like a spoken game of Scrabble, each player borrowing bits of others’ anecdotes to build out their own, until we reach a point when we all run out of things to say.
From anecdote, a short and often amusing account of real-life events + synecdoche, a figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole. Pronounced “uh-nek-doh-kee.”
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. (last accessed: April 8, 2026). anecdoche.
https://www.thedictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/word/anecdoche
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