Postcard Picture

It is a day for scrabbling thru the odds and ends 

of yesteryear, or more practically, dealing with it 

as stashed accumulations of rarely used things; 

there’s a mob of ‘em stored carefully in places a 

monkey’s agility’s th’ needed capacity, way past 

my knack I admit, & rationally - I watch intrigued, 

but I’m winner with a postcard picture of my lady 

at 21, a rare beauty in black & white to cherish 

While it makes more sense than item repacking 

whence you’ll forget the logic in a week, there’s 

a truth in the beauty this picture displays - I see 

it in the way my love’s ‘past tense’ always plays 

leading role; she’s older now, but the innocence 

remains still graphically contained in her today 

© 27 July 2016, I. D. Carswell