I've kept his glasses -
several pairs of them -
to hold on my own face
and see through his eyes
that time we both bought the same style
without knowing
the other had done it
thinking
we were estranged
but boy oh boy were we ever not
together in this lifetime
together no doubt in the next
any photograph brings him back to life
and my anger at him with it
if he wanted to stay married to me
he should have tried kindness
The image, taken by me, is a detail from a portrait of myself by Lydia Viscardi
Thank you very much for reading my late night lament that my husband and I had grown so very far apart.
It is neither an entry to a contest, nor an attempt to wow curators. It is simply what popped out tonight, ten years after the end of a 27 year marriage.