Midwestern Photographer

The amateur click 
Staggers like
Amateur words

Across stained glass
Autumn and 
Skeleton winter

In which black
Water resembles

Not remotely 
The sea clear as
Crystal

And echoes only 
A shadow of the 
Imperfect

A portrait of a façade

Wrinkling with the slightest breath
Like loose skin on taut knuckles
Leaving a mirage

Crude and inaccurate
As the syllables 
Describing the phenomenon

In which the 
Reflection itself becomes the 
Fixation

The blurred image
Vaguely lucid
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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