Snapshot

“SNAPSHOT”

Two little girls posed by the Holly tree.

Holding hands, holding smiles.

Waiting to be captured

by the click of a box camera.

How soon that special moment became a day,

a month,

a year.

Six decades later it’s still drifting back

through black and white time.

That snapshot will be rediscovered.

Resurrected by the curious from an old shoe box

in some future secondhand store.

Gently lifted into the present.

The dust of time blown away

by those who peer into the familiar past.

For an instant,

once again we will be six years old.

Holding hands, holding our smiles

awaiting the capturing click.

By G. Ann Kaiser

G. Ann Kaiser retired four years ago from a career in property management and lives in Federal Way, Washington.

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