Rae Gouirand’s poem, “Long Exposure,” was first published in Michigan Quarterly Review’s Winter 2018 Issue.
On that last day, we read images taken
from a moving car, listening
to the artist speak of wanting that way
time stretches things out
readable in the frameÂ
so the image caught is the image itself
passing, then of howÂ
she experimented with how longÂ
to keep the shutter open. When thingsÂ
line up or sit atop another, I joinÂ
a lump there, join the bottom of myself.Â
You sit beside, stroking my handÂ
those moments, first squinting at long skiesÂ
over Laramie then nodding.
Rae Gouirand’s book, Glass is Glass Water is Water, was published in 2019 by Spork Press, and is available for purchase here.
Read more Poetry by Rae Gouirand and others, in the Michigan Quarterly Review Archives.
