shadow harlotry, parlor idol treed, commerce over nature...

Main Street, North Adams, MA c1908
Photo source: Library of Congress; Prints and Photographs Division; Detroit Publishing Company
Photograph Collection; Call Number: LC-D4-70516

frame not your perspective

develop your poem

as a series of photographs

realize you could be

a dry glass plate

thirsting the process

limb wading

the mists

of your mornings

and your nights

curtain

your caged doors

the window catalysts

your circular time and

perpetual emotion

the wired calendars

in the rain

the mass cathedrals

the caught masks

and ritual breathing

your electricity drinking

the candid from casks

and old memories

you made up to feel real

or softened enough

to take home again

EJR ©