I was looking at old black and white photos recently, many of them uncaptioned so I had to guess who was who and where they were …
STORIES UNTOLD
I wonder whose houses
stand against smiling skies 
whose eyes close
against flash bulbs
hide behind veiled hats
what stories twist
behind black and white
billow from mouth
to caption fragment
against baptismal record
flirt with marriage lines
to become tales told
by my mother when dusk
turns the pages
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A Bedroom of Searchlights’: poetry. This collection draws a picture of the poet’s divorced mother, an artist with two children, who struggled with poverty, war, and the realities of daily life, yet still found beauty and comfort in her garden, and her art. From Inanna Publications, 2016.
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About Joanna M. Weston
Born in England, she lives in British Columbia. She is married with three sons,
Joanna has an MA from the University of British Columbia. She has published in numerous anthologies and in magazines in Canada, the US, UK, and New Zealand, such as Canadian Women's Studies, Convolvus, Endless Mountains Review, Grain, Green's Magazine, Prairie Fire, Spin, Wascana Review, CBC Gallery, and many more...
Thank you! I wish I could say with such grace what I now forget more and more each week…
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And then, out of the blue, I remember something from long ago!
Wonderful how memory works…