From Photo to Poem

Stories happen around us as we move through the day. Capture vignettes with a camera. Return to them in writing.


Solemente in Los Suenos (Only in Dreams)

Down a side street in Barcelona, 
three men stretch on a picnic table. 

Landlocked, they drowse through

dreamscapes, wings pinioned,

haunted in tattered clothes

in tangles of silence.

They clutch fragments

of stolen joy.

Mirages hover,

to rob them of songs.

They rouse to gather

plastic bags filled

with false spirits

and shards of glass.

              - Penny Wilkes