Literature
Photography
I know little about photography.
I can hold a camera, take a picture,
But I can't make a picture real.
What goes on behind a dark room's door?
Bring blank to bare, then something more?
Can an image be simpler in black and white,
Or does gray shade the stills with its presence?
What about pictures in sepia tones?
Are their colors just half-realized?
A memory, framed, brought half to life,
Then abandoned in shadows of auburn?
How much weight can the paper take?
Do pictures need to breathe?
I know little about photography,
But I know of a photo's reality.
I know that a picture is as solid as grief
And as threadbare as sunlight on blue-striped
