Snaps

      How small a snapshot lies in hand
      That held such grandness in its lens.
      A perspective granted only once and when.
      What we see of what is just depends.
5     Bounded by a regular white of lack,
      I look at the detailed littleness;
      A thumb occludes a mountain in the west
      Like a painter perhapsing a sketch on scrap.
      Snapped charm of vistas that had turned my head,
10    Develops charms of Time new-enlisted
      To re-focus a moment visited.
      Out of the frame winces one of my dead;
      I turn the flat for date, and recognize
      How loss and tears consume what's snapped by eyes.

 

From the collection "The Timid Leaper"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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