Frame By Frame
The movie unfolds
A series of stop-action still-lifes
Twenty-four frames might make
A gesture or a word
Forty-eight or seventy-two frames
Might convey
Stillness
A camera takes a picture
To make a frame
Life unfolds
In a series of moments
An in-breath is a moment
An out-breath is a moment
Birth and death
Both moments
We don’t know who or what
Makes moments
We only know
The most important one is
This one.
-- Tom Rubenoff