The Industry of Creating Friendship (in a tea cup)

One is two makes a space between to begin inviting curiosity tap tap From cold silence someone smiles at company bringing three in competition tap tap tip one to make the tea one to pour the milk one to stir the spoon Rivulets of steaming sloosh rushing riding drowning chit chat sparking argument to fire […]

Forensic

When the day leaks out of the glistening streets he finds it impossible to capture the edges of fading forms. Tripod and flash are not enough to match what he thinks he sees in the final take. A galloping horse levitates, an atomic bomb flowers before its mushroom leap but a soul…? Is it there […]

The horizon

The horizon It’s a photo of a little girl putting her toe in the water. She smiles up at the camera from beneath a lock of brown hair. A happy smile. She’s enjoying the excitement of the seaside. Brightly lit, the sky above her pale blue, the few white clouds only slightly tinged with grey. […]

Photographer

  Photographer It’s a downstairs loo now, the lodger’s darkroom. The door’s shifted from outside to in. It’s as if his chromatic aberrations had never been. Except for one fogged picture she’s shoved to the back of her mind. Early morning. Summer. Hot enough to sleep naked and hope her mum’s chapelness doesn’t find out. […]

Galapagos

Black, scaled skin. chapped and drying. Massive claws for rock gripping. White crusted nostrils for salt spitting. A sun warmed rock to heat the blood. A blue-green sea-sky view. A Jump into surf. and a seaweed lunch. My feet following Darwin’s feet. The photograph a catalyst. For memories that overflow.

Day 11. Photography

The doing of something. The outcome. In this case photography… Here’s ‘Viewfinder’ by Kirby Knowlton: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/250622 Photography.