AN EVENT

An unfamiliar room
Filled with familiar people
And a small black camera on
A white linen table cloth
To record the forbidden

PHOTO IN A FRAME

I like your glass shield,
Your very protective face,
You keep the content warm.

This photo was important,
1998

A Photo In A Frame

Black and White
Reflection of
Somebody, that I love.

I look up
He stares at me
Though he has ceased to be.

I

A smile, a laugh, a head thrown back in joy.
Your arms around me, my first car behind us.
The dog you used to have which ate

Brown bits of plastic wrapped
around fresh gleaming clearness
Reveal beneath the shiny gloss
Faces of my past.

They smile up