Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SNAPSHOT, by DONALD LINDSAY


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SNAPSHOT, by                    
First Line: This, they tell me, is a photograph of you
Last Line: Cut down.
Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Spring


This, they tell me, is a photograph of you,
Posed before a young tree
In a springtime garden,
Cradling with unpractised arms
A nursling that was I.

Now none of us --
Nor you, nor I, nor the tree --
Remembers.

For I have lived too many years
To recall your arms.
Or the garden,
Or that sunlit tree.
And by another spring
You and the tree
Were one with a multitude
Of springtime things
Cut down.





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