Hue

On the coffee table

lies a black and white

photograph of death

printed on silver-rich

cold-tone emulsion paper.

The thirty-second exposure stilled

the alpine river waterfall –

white rapids mist into fog

veiled between dark marbled rocks.

Silver salts suspended in gelatin

expose death’s pigment –

circled twice by coffee mug stains.

published by the Eunoia Review on August 7, 2021