Rob Schackne #309 - Fire At Strange Piano

Fire At Strange Piano

                  "The human operator would turn pages by hand—no machine

                  could be as quick and gentle—and fire the cameras by pressing

                  a foot pedal, as though playing at a strange piano." 

                             James Somers, in The Atlantic (20/4/17)

The human operator

none as gentle

when it wants to be

as pedlar

as though poor
at other times
beautiful writer

I heard it again tonight

like a caterpillar
walking hands

collecting firewood

to make light enough

to read your book

come quick

come slow

falling autumn camera
fire at strange piano
all we touch