Morgan Bazilian’s most recent poem to appear here was He Says (May 2014).

Photographs
By Morgan Bazilian

Pictures bent on the mantle
held up by other things:
books, boxes, a vase

The people smiling, moving
hands splayed, touching
They look straight ahead

And by now they have forgotten where he went
when he left
a journey not yet complete

Another frame shows a moment:

The sun low, late autumn
arms intertwined
posed and casual

A small wisp of light
remains in the depression of a cliff

The three women are smiling
and young
each looking in different directions at different cameras

Today they rarely speak
attentions diverted
dusted only rarely