Friday, January 6, 2017

Ways of Seeing

I take a picture
In my mind's eye:
The snow of the night
On the snow covering the night
As far as I can see, these fields.
I breathe deeply, 
Breathing, I see the 
Chiaroscuro. 
Not so long ago
I'd perhaps have said it's 
Negative.
Now no such thing,
Nor no such thing 
As black and white, for 
Without chiaroscuro I could not 
Live in color, as beauty is only
Perfection in the grey mist of 
My floating, carrying world, 
The one I choose to carry 
As best I can, 
Mystic symbiosis, 
And so whatever I do
Or say becomes just 
Coloring my life
As I see it,
I guess through
The shadows, though 
I already understand quite a bit 
About the highlights, and I 
Understand our this,
About the small, disappearing 
Journey. 

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