Snapshots

Gail Mazur
| poetry

 

this one     and this one

on a ferry

a toddler in my lap

whose?

someone headless holding a live lobster

aloft

when?

my daughter laughing

at Pea Soup Anderson’s

on the way to—

ah! San Francisco?

Vancouver?

and this one

this one family

reunion

grandmothers     great-aunts

cousins like strangers

wisteria in full

like Monet

almost

the man I love and I

from the back

holding hands

surely smiling

we’re leaving

where to?

in the foreground

pebbles and also

in the distance

rubble

when?

Gail Mazur is author of seven poetry collections, including They Can’t Take That Away from Me, finalist for the National Book Award, Zeppo’s First Wife, winner of the Massachusetts Book Award, Figures in a Landscape, and Forbidden City. Her eighth book, Land’s End: New and Selected Poems, is forthcoming.

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