Scanning photos unseen
for decades or weeks maybe
edges just miss being
captured in digital frame
confirming Christmases
of pure imagination
that karaoke machine
I sang into for the camera
book ornaments with
real stories inside
the one time we went
skiing or skating
how can these blurred faces
seem more real than present
that chair only inches
from its current position
the crèche in the hall
as lifelike in 4x6 matte print
we can live like this at least
taking them out of the box
every so often to give them
light a room to keep
which is immortality
remembering themself again
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Joshua Keiter 