Jeanie Tomasko

J e a n i e  T o m a s k o

Capture, as in

            for Marilyn

1.  A photograph.  2. A day, July, yesterday;

yesterday’s July.  3. A monarch’s wings, first

of the year, or 4. damselfly, thin needle, you

said, and it wouldn’t allow you.  5. Look, how

green the world through a beetle-laced leaf,

6. and we watched the robin shake off his bath. 

7. A camera is like prayer beads, you said. 8.

As in, a moment   9. or a heart, briefly.