"The Kodak Camera"

It begins with an anagram—
What will Eastman name his invention?
At a card table, he shuffles

letters with his mother. Give me a strong letter,
a K, Eastman mutters, like the click
of the camera. They pick up an O, the shape

of fog clearing over the tip of Yosemite
as Ansel Adams takes his best shot.

[...]

---
Excerpt from Shannon K. Winston, "The Kodak Camera" (A-Minor Magazine, September 2025)

Full poem available here:
https://aminormagazine.com/2025/09/28/the-kodak-camera/

#TodaysPoem #Poetry #ShannonWinston

"The Kodak Camera"

It begins with an anagram—
What will Eastman name his invention?
At a card table, he shuffles

letters with his mother. Give me a strong letter,
a K, Eastman mutters, like the click
of the camera. They pick up an O, the shape

of fog clearing over the tip of Yosemite
as Ansel Adams takes his best shot.

[...]

---
Excerpt from Shannon K. Winston, "The Kodak Camera" (A-Minor Magazine, September 2025)

Full poem available here:
https://aminormagazine.com/2025/09/28/the-kodak-camera/

#TodaysPoem #Poetry #ShannonWinston

This took many, many revisions. Far more than I normally do.

not the chariot, or the escaping fire of our port

https://subspacewagon.systems/not-the-chariot-or-the-escaping-fire-of-our-port/

@poetry

With the Guppe groups now gone, please feel free to follow the fedigroups.social poetry group.

#SharingIsCaring#Poetry#PoemADay#PoetryLover#Poem#TodaysPoem#WritingCommunity#PoetryCommunity#PoetryCafe #literature #art #amwriting#WritersOfMastodon

This took many, many revisions. Far more than I normally do.

not the chariot, or the escaping fire of our port

https://subspacewagon.systems/not-the-chariot-or-the-escaping-fire-of-our-port/

@poetry

With the Guppe groups now gone, please feel free to follow the fedigroups.social poetry group.

#SharingIsCaring#Poetry#PoemADay#PoetryLover#Poem#TodaysPoem#WritingCommunity#PoetryCommunity#PoetryCafe #literature #art #amwriting#WritersOfMastodon

Rain has eaten 1/4 of me

yet I believe
against all evidence

these raindrops
are my letters of recommendation

here is a man worth falling on.
-- 'Letters' by Ilya Kaminsky from 'You Are Here', edit. by Ada Limón

#VerseThursday#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry

Rain has eaten 1/4 of me

yet I believe
against all evidence

these raindrops
are my letters of recommendation

here is a man worth falling on.
-- 'Letters' by Ilya Kaminsky from 'You Are Here', edit. by Ada Limón

#VerseThursday#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry