Tintype

Dave BontaContemplative

First phoebe of spring. He flutters in front of me, drawn by a slow fly.

In my email, a copy of a tintype portrait I sat for last August—

that still moment five seconds long, that black box.

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First phoebe of .
He in front of me,
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