Photograph

Grinding flesh twig break metallic

Music. Sound. Steel wool grated shade-shadow.

SNAP

The trees blur. The globe explodes.

FLASH. FLASH.

The boy's face disjoins.

His eyes slip along a grainy red horizon.

Filling the darkness and rising back

Skin is . stretched there, between (eye) ----- (the lens)

As the camera pricks the pixels

My eyes smooth their rough edges

Some faint heaviness settles

Teeth aching, tasting object

Abject

DRrrrrr eam

OPppp eration

The image

Is re-membering me.

Every grain-saturated -punch

forcing my eyes into their opaque

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