2011 ASA/APP Second Annual Poetry Writing Competition

Winner College Category:

Haik Gazarian

Captured

Cinema paints the past in grayscale,

assuming memory to be in shades of

black and white, a quantifiable blend

of light and dark and the in between,

obscene, really, to look at the bland                         5

of old photographs and associate

remembrance to something as dull,

emotion nullified into the mechanism

of film unwound and soaked, chemicals

used to invoke the appearance of a time,             10

loved ones confined to the binds of an

album likely swimming in dust,

untouched, left to rust the way a photograph

can, once-present moments reduced to

faded thoughts; remember them we must,             15

or else they become but forever lost.