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.