Snapshot: Exes in Black & White, by Catherine Arra

Snapshot: Exes in Black & White, photography by Alex Stolis (USA) contemporary

Snapshot: Exes in Black & White
 
You remember who you were
that sweet version of sugar dust,
the taste of forever.
 
Now, you float, a filament leaving 
a field of vision, exiting stage left.
 
Backdrop:
the weather-beaten two-story with a front-end turret,
scalloped curtains tied back, a sturdy silhouette
 
statue’d between drapes;
libido smoldering in concrete.
 
Zoom in:
an owl perches on the coned peak, offers
a full-circled head spin, a lulling coo.
 
Focused to pinpoint
black/white immortal clarity:
 
You remember
who you were.

Catherine Arra
 
Catherine Arra lives in the Hudson Valley of upstate New York, where she teaches part-time, and facilitates local writing groups. She is the author of four full-length poetry collections. And four chapbooks. Recent work appears in San Pedro River Review, Thimble Literary Magazine, Origami Poems Project, and Stone Circle Review. Find her at www.catherinearra.com
 
Alex Stolis lives in Minneapolis; his photos have appeared or are forthcoming in Ink in Thirds, San Pedro Review, Unleashed Lit, and Anti-Heroin Chic. His full-length book Pop.1280, is a poetry and photo collection, available from Amazon. His chapbook, Postcards from the Knife-Thrower's Wife, was released by Louisiana Literature Press in 2024, RIP Winston Smith from Alien Buddha Press 2024, and The Hum of Geometry; The Music of Spheres, 2024 by Bottlecap Press.