Johanna Emeney

Captions

Some of the pages
have empty mountings
still with captions
under their bare grey squares:
FIRST COACH JIM HELPED TO BUILD
TOWNHALL CERTIFICATE-GIVING—
far more mysterious
than those with photos
of MR AND MRS DUNNE AT OURS
and VIOLET ON TINKER,
but less compelling
than the ones labelled ME

just in case anyone wonders
who hid behind a leafy tree,
swung, in a bathing suit,
from ropes attached to the sky,
or peeked out
behind steely-headed MOTHER,
who stands,
arms folded,
in front of a house
called INVICTA.