Past Perfect Continuous
by Igor Posner
This is a city half-seen and half-recollected, one version overlaid imperfectly on the other, mapping where the past and the present intersect – a fictional city, then, one that is, in a sense, conjured up by the desire to find some lost incarnation of what was once familiar – a desire that will never, ultimately, be realized.
It is a collision
Not an accident, but a crush
between yourself
and the light
and what stands
in between you,
the two of you:
the black dog,
the white dog,
the him and her,
of the moment
you did not remember
taking.
- from The Return of not Returning by Mary Di Lucia
St Petersburg 2009
by Igor Posner
Printed full frame on 5x7” Ilford Warmtone paper
.5” margins on the long side
Validated with a custom chop on reverse