I’ve passed this way before.
Many times before
Where once a housing estate stood, was demolished then nature slowly reinstated.
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Weeks ago, stripped back awaiting redevelopment, fresh growth has already taken hold.
Again.
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower.
Today I passed again the turned ground of former homes, through front rooms, kitchens.
The well tended gardens of long gone ghosts.
And then I found a film.
Furled then unfurled, still moist from yesterdays rain – with care, I laid it in the sun.
Unprocessed, lacking any trace of edge markings, but exposed – who could ever know?
It’s too late to stop now, develop or fix.
Heaven alone knows, the latent images that may have lain awaiting within:
Those fragile fragments of silver.
I have dutifully released and revealed the actions of the landscape upon the abandoned film.
What once was lost, now is found, was blind but now we see.
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