LEGACY

“God’s Light” Photo by Dan Meylor

Aging photographers,

we sit around a table

once a week

at the Java Cafe.

We speak in camera language

of our hope for the moment of perfect exposure:

ISO, shutter speed, Aperture.

In our garages,

our studios, if we have one,

spare bedrooms,

closets, are

prints: framed, unframed, matted, unmatted,

processed and pinned

like butterflies in our museum

of memories.

We rarely speak of our own

luminescence of life

gathered from the first flare,

star-dust, the passage of time

for which no print is possible.