ACCOUNT OF MY DAYS
Sequence: 7
EVEN SO
a picture of least importance
barn and house
or set of stick figures
the animals by the barn
clearly not interested in the photographer
two of the figures holding stick hands
and smiling
we understand not
where the place is
who are the people
what history occasioned the need
to depict
but the impulse to have an image
treasured for awhile or longer
from time to time held in hand
gazing and remembering
and now in our hands
held without a memory to go with it
but gazing even so