love's fragile focus

love's fragile focus

 

 

snapshot snap shut

the eyes reddened

an old Polaroid

of when we could be captured together

within that little white border 

perfect colors,

except for those eyes

 

something raging,

under the surface

beneath the waves of smiles

lurking,

 

a man-of-war stinging a heart

penetration to the veins

the blissful blood stopped like a clock

coagulating in cogent carelessness

 

but now that album

rests in dusty repose

and most of the pictures in my mind

 

are of me, alone.

as someone clicked the shutter

before my blinds were drawn

 

and the sorrow i felt

was overexposed 

...

 

 

erin-cilberto

10/31/15

Reviews

[Benita-Staebell M - Kin..]

Always paints something
Inspiring in my mind.

snapshot snap shut
the eyes reddened
an old Polaroid..



Nicely penned Jacob.


Thank you for sharing.


God bless Benita

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, Benita.

j.

[alifeacoustic]

I had thoughts of a couple snapped in happier days and one fading from the picture, until the other stood alone. Overexposed sorrow, what a wonderful finish to your words.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, alife.

j.

[W.k.kortas]

The notion of the Polaroid is wonderful--it establishes a place and time and more with one image, which is fine stuff. The whole piece is equally fine--top-nothc construction, the right use of language, the imager just so.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind review, W.k.

j.