Sinister: an old photograph

[Youn J. Noh]

6:59 on a Friday morning.  Any second the alarm clock will go off.  The
sunlight's pouring in but I can barely make out the photo on the dresser
without my glasses.  Just patches of blue and green in an old gold frame.

It's you standing in front of a cafe - there! shelter from the rain.  I
took off my jacket for you, but there your arm is raised to reveal skin
fine and white.  Oh, take care!

Skipping across the gravel in your impossible shoes - those thin ankles! -
you never tottered once.  Peacocks stepped aside for you.  I walked
two steps behind, thinking of your dress that night out on the dance
floor.

I wasn't 'a pathetic teenage wreck'.  I wasn't 'the iconco destruction
pass man'.  But you led me through a maze - right, left, no your other
left, back to front - lost again!  So I fell in upon myself and stared at
my reflection in a pool.

Til the alarm called me back.  Thank goodness for that!

















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