Cyanotyping life into poetry

means accepting that events will

almost certainly be distorted,

for that is part of the process.

Some colors remain

while others subside

as they make way for clarity

that was not present

while we lived unaware

that we might want to 

write about this someday.

Transposing single images to create film

or forcing themes out of sadness,

the results do not matter

as long as they are obvious 

to the reader.

Yet photographers do not need

to worry about distorting themselves

through their work;

poets can only hope that

their distortions grow larger

than the smallnesses they capture

in words.