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INSTAMATIC
by
Noel Williams
As if
stepping from a there
I couldn’t
imagine, into
a here I
dare not believe,
fronds of
willowherb head high
unclasp –
she dazzles.
Wishes drift
around her, aureole of seeds.
Only a
photo. 35mm. Square.
Shotover,
Oxford. Summer, ‘73.
The blonde
of that bright day
is pale now
as onionskin,
her hair
fused into the stalks
fused into
the paper fused
into
forgetfulness.
My memory of
the photograph
is stronger
than its memory of that hour.
Sometimes
she smiles for me
but I see
the photograph,
now the
wishes flower.
"Instamatic" is the First Prize winning poem in the Sentinel
Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition (January 2010)
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