These Photographs of Mine

by | Aug 19, 2024 | Poetry

Instant photographs
tainted by my desperation.
The polarizing filter
couldn’t break my mind’s halation.
How ethereal the sights were
that I captured with my lenses.
With a fleeting flash of light,
the film was blinded by my senses.
An afterimage of dark-
from the shuttering spark
leaked from the hardened plastic
in my head, in my head.
Though I pulled my mind apart,
silver emulsion formed clots,
tingling like shards of static
they embed, they embed.
Ideals pressed into film,
shaking.
The lens beginning to spill,
breaking. 
I adjust my lens,
I adjust my sight.
These photographs of mine 
have all turned out white.

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  1. Eryn eibel

    epic sauce. really makes me think!

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  2. Eryn eibel

    epic sauce. really makes me think! ou should write more, Natalie!!!!!

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