Public Interest
The photographers will turn off
their lights, fold up the legs
of their tripods, pack up
black cameras into black bags,
zip them closed, return
lenses to their black cases,
snap them shut.
The photographers, each in turn,
through the back lit narrow doorway
will retreat from what
was never theirs to enter.
And what, for the photographic instant,
was declared emblematic, metaphoric—
will go back to being the single
thing it was all along.
One home,
one clay wall,
one satchel,
one calendar displaying
one torn month.
One frame containing
one life photographed.
One tin spoon, having stirred
one tin pot, then entering
one mouth.
About the author
Arlyn has published her poems in Calyx, Jewish Women's Literary Annual, Freefall , and the 2008 Her Mark Journal. She travels widely through the…
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Table of contents
- From the editors
- Poetry
- Two poems by Jacqueline Dee Parker
- Romances
- Two poems by Sarah J. Sloat
- Two Poems by Priscilla Atkins
- Two Poems by Martin Ott
- Magdalene’s Manhattan
- Two Poems by Michael Bazzett
- Two poems by Lily Iona MacKenzie
- Four poems by Suzanne Parker
- Two poems by Leah Browning
- Three poems by Hali Sofala
- Public Interest
- Three poems by Heather Derr-Smith
- Euphoric in Essex
- Postcard Prose
- Travel Notes