Small Towns Between
...The town fathers
are long neglected by scavenging vultures,
locked up as they are,
in the wood cabin, we call the town museum.
Inside the shack, there are old tintypes, sepia
photographs and t...
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Categories:
tintypes, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Legislators Are the New Mill Owners
...JUSTICE
They stare out at us unsmiling
from tintypes of the first photographs,
from the tea-colored pictures
of thin, ragged immigrants, huddled
in cold bare rooms in tenements,
children cl...
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Categories:
tintypes, anger, angst, feelings, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Tintype-A Human Heart
...The etching point
Of emotion-
A dark plate
For splash of light-
Stillness the contrast…
Tintype-a human heart…
I have an old Tintype,
A soldier and his lovely lady;
Radiant a pair as one wo...
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Categories:
tintypes, allegory, allusion, heartbreak, lost
Form: Free verse
Writing With Light
...Boxes of photographs in the closet
As life goes on, it piles up in our mindset
Hoping to catch every bit of the good times
You’ve been there, and again you live within its confines
Aging as it ...
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Categories:
tintypes, image, light, memory, missing,
Form: Rhyme
The Waxed Coat Man
...In crackled tintypes bent with long ago,
Amid flaxen sunset and skies of cherry—
In worn leather-carved ancient scenario,
He dare not lie in milkweed prairie.
He rides resolute toward that swea...
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Categories:
tintypes, cowboy-western, hope, introspection, nostalgia,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
The Baggage of Photographs
...You are the face in a faded photograph
from a past that is not your own. You are
an image of your mother, her hand at her breast,
touching with butterfly fingers the gossamer
fold of her gown...
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Categories:
tintypes, fantasy
Form: Narrative