An Early Photo

by

Lark Beltran

 

Still unaware
that childhood ends,
she stares into
well-focused lens,

Weight of the world
not of her world;
life-notions woolly,
mother-of-pearled.

Discord and death
from distance cast
their bogeyman shadow
that could not last.

Form transformed,
that selfsame I
finds rapture in
a starlit sky.

 

 

Originally from northern California, Lark Beltran has lived in Lima, Peru, for over 30 years as an ESL teacher. She has written poetry for many years, some of which has appeared in a number of online magazines.

 

 

 

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