Click to see Memories – Jane Black
May 29, 2021
sometimes i find photos
of someone who’s not me
sun kissed hair and
a smile full of missing teeth
fingers twisting in grass at the ball park
finding nothing and catching nothing
and being happy for it
caught in the flash of a mother’s camera
embarrassed on the drive home
red eye but no evil there
no evil like the reflection in the glasses
of the girl in her computer chair
fourteen years old and in lingerie
for a man old enough to be her dad
i don’t have family photos
i don’t have a portrait from sears
my yearbook is a zip locked hard drive
in the bile of a federal building