Pezzi con Pezzi

Wood shingle by wood shingle

The walls of my cabin

Are now frigid and silent

I took the last framed picture

Off the wall facing north

I took a last photo

Perhaps for another wall

Wood shingle by wood shingle

I leave my cabin

To another man, his woman, his dreams

I will pack again

Another bag, another pillow

Leave the mountain to its sunsets

And in another city, on another wall

Hang the picture I took

Of the cabin where

Cedar shingle by
Cedar shingle

I said goodbye

Every day I was there

April 4, 2014

©Vahé Kazandjian, 2014

I took this picture in the Sahel, near the Algerian border. Isn’t it wonderful to shutter so gracefully by keeping all the pieces nearby?