Friday, May 21, 2010

an old poem from the 1990's found and resurrected

the dark room
it is a field of black lilies
a burned out sun, an enormous dark pupil

and i

am an inverted miniature
caught under its gaze

a perfect shadow of myself, a cipher
waiting to be exposed on a plate of silver film

once in my life
if i could only capture a moment so perfectly as this photograph
feel pain without guilt or
peace without boredom,
find my way into the light outside the cave

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