WHEN AN IMAGE MEANT SOMETHING

gone are the days
of everlasting imagery
the kind of scenes
woven through the pages of history
like textbook tapestries

canvas and photography
from the drip of Monet's lilies
to the click of the soldiers that stormed the beach
on a mission to liberate Normandy

important imagery is rapidly sinking
into an ever-deepening sea
of artificial poster art and
images designed for marketing

a picture used to say a thousand words