Caught Behind

Every time I am caught With my back to someone's camera I look aghast Refusing to believe, to accept That the unfamiliar posterior of a human head With dirty grey wisps of hair Like an odd-looking horseshoe Stuck on a hairless scalp That reflects the light of the camera flash Is really me Hiding behind an anterior I thought I knew all my life -

A view of myself that I will never see With my own eyes...