Lensed Path of Clarity
by Michael Romani

There is a path from the beginning
A wonderment that is never ending
From the pain of scale to fenestration
Laying bare our deepest penetration
It's a creation of fine majesty
Dressed up in the mind's imagery

Pen and ink aesthetic leads to black and white
Presented in the dreams that shape the night
There in the nakedness of visual language 
Deep where the photographer and poet languish
If it is necessary it is found there
In these places and pieces that we keep near

Stripped down to cored simplicity
Where there's no need for duplicity
Larger than life as a monument to power
The drive inside moves and devours
Haloed in its clear formal structure
Where a photo compresses in rupture

Lessons of putting everything into place
From the microscopic to the magnified space
A tapped-in sense of spiritual feeling
That keeps you spinning and reeling
Touching one's soul with either menace and fear
Or joyous with the inspiration that must be kept near

(c) June 28, 2017  Michael Romani
All Rights Reserved

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