photograph
jimmyjoe corndog ever looked into a face
that youve never seen before
in a photo
in your hands
and wondered how the fates
could be so generous
to have placed it there?

ever seen a sign
come out through the lines
of a smile
or the angle of an eye
that speaks volumes of the heart
that aimed it there?

ever felt the things
beneath the skin
in a photograph
so thin you could almost
see the light that drives
the soul imprinted there?
ever seen it?
anywhere?
well
i did and have and do
in a photograph of you
and its quite heavenly.
050829
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unhinged what do you think you see?
i could tell what it really is
but you have your own pain right now to suffer

whenever i try to speak of him
my words don't come out right
it's too complicated to even speak about
the tangled web of love
that keeps me connected to him
050830
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unhinged the way we smiled in that photograph told of the years between us. finally, we have our happy memories. 060112
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tender_square taped to the corner of his driver's dash is a woman's blurry picture. she sits in a pale yellow bikini, in the stiffened olan mills pose of the past. her coif is sassy short, bleached blonde in a similar shade of sun as her bathing suit. she is thick-limbed and smiling while a darkness envelopes her body. she peers out of the glass, watching city scenes pass. her fuzzy contours making her more mirage than memory. he kisses his hand and presses it to the windshield where her face fades beneath his fingertips. 230716
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