Imagine each photograph as a moment. A sunset, a hand half-covering the lens. A perfect lemon soufflé in candlelight. Two beige bassets, impossibly in flagrante. A selfie, blotting out the Eiffel Tower. Whole lives can now be stored forever. There’s no longer any need for memory. No fear of late-life dimming. Simply recover, savor, or delete. There. I’ve forgotten you already.
blue sky
another wisp breaks free
from the cloud
is the author of Tick-Tock, a haibun collection that received an Honorable Mention in the Haiku Society of America’s 2020 Merit Book Awards, and Eira, a collection of haiku and haibun (2023); both books are from Snapshot Press. Lew is also the co-author, with Roberta Beary and Rich Youmans, of Haibun: A Writer’s Guide (Ad Hoc Fiction, 2023). He is the haibun co-editor of Frogpond and holds an honorary doctorate from Bristol University. Born and raised in Wales, he now lives in Chicago with his wife, Roxanne Decyk. His other passions are fly fishing and gin martinis.
