-the Bride-

Loring Studio.

    The place in town
        For the best in bridal portraiture.

There, she'll sit as still
As a knick-knack in porcelain ––

The fold of a gown drapes

To barely touch the floor.

Her hair is tightly fixed with decoration
And she sits quietly, unaccustomed to the rigidness
Of portrait studio photography.

She knows only the captured
Activities of the snapshot

Documenting the vitality of life on the run,

Life on the fly,
    Life for laughs,
       Good-times at the beach,

A life for running
Fast with the boys
Behind the tailgates of the drenched
Summer trucks for a chunk of ice.

Loring Studio paints
    An air-brushed rose
        To her cheeks;

Moves her natural beauty back
For the sake of tincture.

The day will come
When her eldest son Will come to speak of this image

Posting it to an over-populated
Social space of his own time.