Family Portrait

Family Portrait Do you see It's nineteen seventy on the pier in Dún Laoghaire We self-consciously facing his camera his rasping plastic camera And us together with smiles scattered by blinding sun Six of us in the sound of gulls the applaud of surf Worlds of timeless ancient rhythm whispering constantly whispering Time hidden from us all Did you get it Did you get the picture Yes he said... And at last we move as if statues frozen for a thousand years not to know time would not wait