— K., the summer before, with strangers
albumen · 4×5 · undated · unsigned
taken somewhere none of the buildings on it now exist. one tall thing is a church; one is a chimney; one is a thing that you cannot say without first naming what it stood beside.
three small figures in pale clothes, half-turned. the middle one is looking out of the photograph at you. the photograph has been doing that for a long time now.
field-note · the back has a date pencilled in another hand: not us.
photograph · memory · postcard a · them