TexasGirl Photography

I went out

in the beautiful light

of the late afternoon

on the last 

day of the year

I wasn’t seeking

specifically 

just walking

and looking

There at the reservoir 

was the Great White Bird

whom I had seen 

before 

  but always

when in passing

at speed

no stopping

no camera 

There it was 

stoic 

among the fishermen

reflecting 

the dream of the sky

in the water

Photographs made with a Kodak Brownie camera and Tri-X. The negatives are, quite frankly, a mess, and I hope to see the bird again when I have a camera with me that will give me sharper focus. But special gifts arrive in their own time, not in mine! PS I’ve totally rekindled the poetry obsession of my teens – sorry, not sorry.