poetry: as your lover

phantoms softly embrace in your frame of reference notes, lines, light, shadow where life meets machine trapped, cradled, known by lenses frenzied in moments you’ve ambered in ink

in memory in silence in the conscious ticks of your glassy rectilinear chamber of tamed wild forces distilled into the shot caught clear when you chose the liquid horizon as your lover

as another shore thing made being between affect and aperture where negative space exposed as possibility flows beyond wavelength below the surface emulsifying, pixelating, staging a dye in to frame every particle present in the scene’s development

pale foam breaking through pigments of peafowl plumage, they touch the sky together, atmospheric intimacy captured, crashing, still

the face of dawn blushes and burns and bursts a flash under cloudy covers, soft overflow beneath the pink, solar photons dance on water to welcome night, crimson blankets our stellar orbital anchor,

phantoms abound

(Image description: three side-by-side images featuring the sea against the backdrop of cloudy skies during different times of day above the words “photos by steve núñez”)

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