Your face, alive, looking at another, gone.
Paper. Nothing on the other side or known to be.
You puzzle my unimaginative mind,
That image has no evolution that I find
To frame a fascination from, but it begins
With every day your fresh response of memory.
Confined in chromogenic residue.
Silence divided by a lens, forgotten prompts,
To stand like this, face the camera, you.
A rare smile, apparently, called up by your appeal.
Words that I shall never hear. And there:
Those eyes that saw the you I’ll never see.
Categories:
chromogenic, devotion, first love, jealousy,
Form: Free verse
Photographs are memories of life developed in dark rooms of reflection
Exposure and fixation for a moment and beyond
A couple holding firm their togetherness covered in aquamarine hues
Blue focus a moon the earth horizon and foothold
Some of them require no more than an aperture and infinite moment
Whichever way you turn them they shed intricate light
The centre remains where all angles meet regardless of perspective
Like a Rorschach Test with one half missing
Azure Cyan and Sapphire shades condensed on a palette in motion
A kiss and embrace hanging from film clips waiting to dry
Stop bath fixer and final rinse then reality immortalizes another illusion
Cerulean dreams held by intimate clouds and lips intertwined
A picture in which artist and models change positions and convergence
Glimpse of concern and subtle impermanence
Turquoise surrender and teal skies as comets lie in passionate waiting
Spectre and shadows solemnly overcast and yet translucent
Captured on chromogenic paper and free as the stars nevertheless
A picture holds pure truth while the Universe shifts
26th January 2020
Categories:
chromogenic, senses,
Form: Free verse
Comic
faces smiling.
Maniacal laughter
echoing deep inside the head.
Terror.
This poem was inspired by Cindy Sherman's Untitled #425, a chromogenic color print from 2004. This print was seen at the Dallas Museum of Art, which is currently hosting a Cindy Sherman retrospective until June 9, 2013.
Categories:
chromogenic, dark, fear,
Form: Cinquain