Sunday, January 15, 2023

The Photograph

 



My father in a beam of sunlight from the kitchen window,

the rest of the room a dim background; hands extended,

bending down to his granddaughter, minute particles of dust

glistening around them.

Vermeer-like: an intimate moment made still and lasting in

a slant of light, a gentleness isolated from the moving world;

a glimpse to slow the pulse, stop at the pool of a mind,

contemplate the heart.

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