family album
and a here with a granddad unknown unknowable
indefinite epithets unilluminated a stern expression
a serious face of his age deftly inscrutable
a granny too indistinct crossing a distance
yet focused a deadpan gaze into a stillborn life
that stares back like a knife
then a father young almost handsome smug with
potential
the future a wild animal to be captured and caged beside
a mother inside her beauty peering out with
uncertain
apology in a smile that never quite reaches her eyes
and an Imago windswept with the then and the now
caught in the gusts of a life stiffening and cracking
already brittle with rust
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