Looking at Pictures to Be Put Away
by Gary Snyder
Who was this girl
In her white night gown
Clutching a pair of jeans
On a foggy redwood deck.
She looks up at me tender,
Calm, surprised,
What will we remember
Bodies thick with food and lovers
After twenty years.
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A little something for my 51st birthday. Photo: Summer 1983: Pamplona, Spain: Brian Harrison, Yolanda Fernandez, Lisa Alvarez
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5 comments:
Happy Birthday, Lisa!
Happy Birthday. Love how excited you look in the photo.
Happy Birthday Lisa!
Hope you are having a grand birthday!
Such a lovely poem and photo.
Happy Birthday, and I missed seeing you yesterday,
the other L
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