By: J.F. Merifield
Through The Picture Frame
greened & overexposed
if this photograph is of remembrance
let it travel waveless
carried by the silence between
place your shoulders here
on the lean
braced between the past
and the lost
moments posed mirror perfect
awash in flashes
The Night Around Me Is Large & Weightless
each now reduced
down to memory
a photograph burned
the smoke
collected to form visions
just off the edge of seeing
a hand held out
to cup the breeze
if we are to speak
let it be
in motions of whispers
As In The Manner Of An Open Door
lastly watch
the fades of the sky
grow into one foot
set in front
of another
sowing
out of dust
all that is
left longed for
to frame a new image
once burned
down to ash
J.F. Merifield, a poet living in northwest Montana with a Poetry M.F.A. from George Mason University, has poems published by La Picciolette Barca, Neuro Logical, Verse, Rust & Moth, among others.
"These poems are part of a manuscript that meditates on the interplay between memory, photography, and grief. While the language, for the most part, is very straight forward and simple, within these small pomes I try to create images one can also sit with, sinking into the layers of line & sound play, the depths of interconnected imagery, and the weighted-ness of human memory."