Bygone

Just a name, a person long forgotten

a face that flashes, fades or fixes

in the mind’s eye for a split-second,

only to dissipate and become the

thin mist on a memory,

a vague photographic persona

half in the black and white margin

a melancholy wraith, witness 

to his own anachronistic ensemble.

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© Graham Sherwood 10/2019