Finger brush the hairpin trigger
Red laser cut blue cigarette smoke
Serpentine thick black hair
Shutter snap
Paper white skin
Swollen red lips
Magnesium air slicked film
Shooting you,
I am shooting you.
Through the scope
Focus negative you
Reflect back on me
Hunter’s sepia hue
Crimson emulsion memory
Blood-flecked landscape
Flash flood light spill across dull night passage
Exposing you,
I am exposing you.
Hit the matte
Lay flat across the sensor
Printed skinned tattoo artist
Latent image dead beyond the lens
Quivering prey line morning dew tag list
Diffraction
Refraction
Processing you,
I am processing you…
Developing you,
I am developing you…
My perfect, digital, you.
I lied to you –
When I shot you.
