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threshold
Virgil

what is nostalgic
 1
about photographs
 2
is that you will
 3
never be the same
 4
as the fractus
 5
I've imprisoned you in.
 6
 
 
even the coffee stain
 7
on your sleeve enjoys
 8
the transmutation,
 9
 
 
this inconvenient
 10
morning lineup,
 11
now returning,
 12
laughs in the voices
 13
of now-grown children
 14
wedged in an old album.
 15
 
 
it too, is the present.
 16
the second hand tick
 17
or a dry-eyed blink:
 18
            a [click]
 19
photons subtract
 20
on the other side,
 21
 
 
where the extant
 22
ceases in places
 23
some things never were,
 24
even then.
 25

17 Jul 07


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