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Poem Written after Alison Rossiter’s Haloid Platina,  exact expiration date unknown, ca. 1915, processed in 2007

9/6/2023

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by Mischelle Anthony
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Photo credit: New York Public Library Digital Collections
It’s clever, this photograph of a processed
photograph rendered too late, an abstract cloud of
dust.  

O tornado caught in time, O funnel cloud of
barn planks and grime, your boundaries 

symmetrical, liquid, smooth as the red 
​wine glass that we never put in 
the dishwasher. That I did, though, 
last evening: force the bulb against 
the pale not-quite-sky blue, thrill 
at the *thunk* as rubber spikes hover 
above the washer door and its viscous  
finger-y drips, factory special white as  
photo paper, white as the noise,  
the buzz of the vintage 
radio behind every song 
and newscast we choose  
to hear instead of each other.
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