Camera Obscura

The trail’s almost obliterated, you ask him where is it.
 
 
You snap and snap as he walks away then back into the lens.
 
 
An orange dot, which the camera loses, though the eye keeps track.
 
 
You ask him to take a picture of you in the red scarf and hat.
 
 
You are not part of this landscape, this picture is a romance.

Judith Taylor is the author of Curios (Sarabande Books) and Selected Dreams from the Animal Kingdom (Zoo Press). Her new book, Sex Libris, comes out in October 2013 from What Books Press. She lives in Los Angeles and co-edits POOL: A Journal of Poetry.
*Photo courtesy of shoot film, not bullets.
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