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I-my-camera-and-me

    by Anne-Marie Glasheen

    we went out walking I-my-camera-and-me

    it wasn’t for long it wasn’t that far
    just up the lane and down again

    but such wonders did we see I-my-camera-and-me
    that it could have been a life-time

    an amorphous plastic thingamabob burrowing into or emerging from the track

    a metal strip noticed at last breaking into a smile

    a fork that had seen better days and no food for a while

    an alien’s footprint or the indispensible restyled coat hanger having a whale of a time

    a my-little-pony whose lush-mane bounces back however many cars try to tame it

    did the cola-can-disc accompany the fork’s last meal

    a lost-on-earth tribble or something more mundane

    une fleur blanche what secrets did you once hold

    a sad stone

    the end of a party

    a shaggy dog story

    we relished our alone-ness I-my-camera-and-me
    and the objects galore that we couldn’t ignore

    and the call of the birds the cries of the kids
    siren-wails bee-hums gravel-crunches

    flowers and barbecues not persuasive enough
    to distract from the purpose of I-my-camera-and-me

    in time it was time that called time on our time-out
    when it blew us back to the here and now

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    Submitted on the theme of LEISURE, Summer 2010