Photographs

memories sometimes
do better in boxes
than in minds. . .
cast off memories
like a ship
heaving lines to shore. . .
leave the ugly
and some beautiful also
stashed away. . .
then head for the open
sea of faces
and the strange and lonely places. . .
some in shadow some in sun
some in a race
i once had run. . .
with a wide-angle finish
of the way it ended
to when it begun. . .

1979