Sunday, January 12, 2025

A Mirror Held to Music

W. Eugene Smith, Walnut Street, Pittsburgh, 1950s.



Surely it was too much

to expect our fragment of time

to become eternity


But the card you sent

showed something of yourself

with so few words


And you quoted Neruda

as we rode out of the tunnel

into the propellers of sunset


Everything

seemed possible


I thought

this would be easier


My soul is created

by thousands of images

I cannot erase.