"Snapshot" - from Rhymes Lost to Reason: The poetry of Peter Elyakim Taussig

Snapshot

You took my breath away --

And casually let it go

(What use to you a breath of mine?)

While I, breath-less, like a greedy collector

Snared your luminous essence

And lovingly pinned it

To the dark velvet of my mind --

A dead memory of a living moment

I could no longer release.

Music from my CD "101 Sound-bite Symphonies", No.32