Take a Closer Look

Take a Closer Look

Take a look,

the hair style,

the cuts are different.

The clothes are

older, two or three

generations back, perhaps

and the buildings in the background

wooden, rough, weatherboard.

Lots of boots

everywhere boots,

someone was a boot-maker!

and serious expressions,

all serious, eyebrows,

narrowed faces,

wrinkled searching brows,

eyes,

and all picked out in black and white

Take a closer look

that face has such a 

familiarity

about it...

these people

were hard living people.

This old photo

shows my

father's

family.