When We Look

When We Look 

 

     When we look

at photos in clippings

     or family pics,

          what we seek

     has gone,

yet seems preserved:

     tomorrow, we'll

               watch 

     mist

               rising above

our mountain's peak.

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When You Look 

 

     When you look

for yourself in clippings

     or family photos,

          what you seek

               has gone,

     yet seems preserved:

               Tomorrow will

show you another

               self     as mist

          rises above

our mountain's peak.

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