-The late winter bride-

Loring Studio;

The best place in town

For the wedding portrait.

She's directed to pose as stiff

As a porcelain knick-knack,

The hand-assisted drape

Of her heavy wedding gown

Angled to the floor in closed-form precision.

Thin, flowing young woman,

Hair tightly fixed and decorated

Sits unaccustomed to the rigidness

Of portrait photography.

She knows only the living

Activities of the snapshot

Documenting her vitality.

Pictures on the fly.

For laughs.

For good-times at the beach.

For holding hands with friends

On a downtown window shopping spree.

Her young husband remembers her

Running fast with the boys

Behind the drenched summer ice-trucks.

"Loring Studio" will paint a false,

Brushed-red to her cheeks;

Move her beauty back

For the sake of artificial accomplishment.

One day her eldest son

Will write of this image,

Posting it for public consumption,

The bloated populous hovering in cyberspace.