To the Reader
(after Ben Jonson, 1623)

This Photo, in its setting trapp'd,
   It was of Brian duly snapp'd:
Sore preft the Taker was to ply
   His Thumb, before the grin could fly:
O,could he but haue caught his mood
   As well on film, as he imbued
His face ; the Print might then haue soul,
   And not looke quite so flat and dull.
But, fince such grace it can not learn
   Read on, and Grant the Text a turn.

B. K.
Portrait
Photo by G. Skinner
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To the Reader (B-0187 [B-105])
(Photographic Verses: 2.1)

1st web edition posted 7/13/1999
(updated 2/20/2004).
(2nd web edition also available)

Published by Fleabonnet Press.
© 1999-2004 by Brian Kunde.