4. monochrome
strictly speaking the layer of silver
emulsion is simply that the image
couched as a future memory evoked
by the thrust of sculpted light from above
through the innocent negative how else
to catch a momentary impulse a kiss
a solitary leaf in space the edge
of a shadow sliding across stone strident
faces in a crowd pulling off feats
of unimaginable stupidity a machine at rest
folding in on itself cracking open in sunlight
expressed in tones of grey emerging from
white in the tray contrast precise to the second
& fixed as though it could ever be real