2 June 2002 | Vol. 2, No. 2
Snapshots
The camera stores the hours when
everything returns to the right hand,
view finder matching patterns
of parents and children, shutter
measuring different speeds of dying,
flash fixing days when the living
came together with remembered
sounds of hammers pounding
nails, hands slapping dough,
sticks rattling fences.
Everything stored in an eye flash.
All the parts reconciled
in a landscape with grass
a green that never was.
Nothing realized but certain
and just about to happen.
Back where absence begins, she's
searching for a sunset shot,
inventing endings that come out
right, waiting for negatives
yet to be developed.
About the author:
Ruth Daigon was the founder and editor of Poets On: for twenty years until it ceased publication. Her awards include The Eve of St. Agnes Award, The Ann Stanford Poetry Prize and The Greensboro Poetry Award. Her poetry has appeared in such print and online journals as Shenandoah, Negative Capability, Poet & Critic, Kansas Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly, Atlanta Review, Ariga, Crania, CrossConnect, Zuzu's Petals, and many others. She has been Poet-of-the-Month on The University of Chile's Pares Cum Paribus for a chapbook in both English and Spanish. Another of her chapbooks permanently resides on the Internet at Web Del Sol. She has read from her work Payday at the Triangle, based on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of New York City in 1911, on location in the Lower East Side Tenement Museum of Manhattan. Her latest poetry collection, Handfuls of Time, will appear in 2002. She can be reached by email at ruthart@aol.com or online at members.aol.com/ruthart/.
For further reading:
See the complete list of work by Ruth Daigon at 42opus. Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 2, No. 2, where "Snapshots" ran on June 2, 2002. List other work with these same labels: poetry.
