Saturday, May 10, 2008

The Fireworks and the Open Shutter Inferno

The Fireworks and the Open Shutter Inferno

Light
Set
Match
Flame
and the Inferno
ignited
and flared
and flown high
overhead.

And overhead
and in mind
I think to myself
camera in hand
and light
short but intense:

what if I could hold a moment
so rare

and quick
gone in an instant so fast,
just a short moment
my eye

a shutter
a shudder
held open
an inferno of light
and a moment
I could hold forever

like a streak
in the night

overhead.

-Matthew Koutzun

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