Pilgrimage #14 Steady Frame

I am pulled passing the sepia the

man who beheld men & I place myself

there as if praising by peering

around the camera that caught

this original with camera the

intention & sadness in sustaining

what is beautiful with the eyes stilling

what is not sustained except by peering

in I see perhaps what the man held &

saw as I hold out my hand balancing

camera & one moment of beauty

in my passing exposure to the history
frame steady & his forehead bound
in holding just with these momentary
eyes what is natural & disappearing