Thursday, January 26, 2006

i was shown a photo album last night . as i turned the pages, seeing familiar but younger faces, smiling, long gone new years and birthdays and picnics, she said, "sherry do you realize that over 10 of the people in these pictures are dead now?"


did you know

as the camera flashed
that this would be
a last remembered bright smile
that a kissed cheek would
be the ending touch of
flesh and soul and possibilities
a life, captured beneath
a sheet of protective plastic
brought out every now and then.

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