Photo ©2012 R. Burnett Baker
Taken by R. Baker, Monroe Ave. Rochester, NY
April 2012.
at the cross-walk:
prodigal son
joy reflects one instant for those alive
and counted, sharing the range
of emotion we cannot find in you
for we can not find you. was it two
or three now, years, you vanishing
like so many tales of devious millionaires
or young girls gone missing, but you
were neither (are neither)? all children
since are grown or growing, their
laughter synonymous with fading
memory. captured in photos, tempered joy
is a hostage to truth beneath
laugh-lines, those salient moments
we cling to as life-lines for hope.
Poem ©2012 R. Burnett Baker
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