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IDENTITY/IMAGE

looking through a viewfinder

the lens that once gazed at my kind

in an imperial colonial timeline

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through the viewfinder,

this lens,
this eye,​

was it kind to them?

 
 

faces, ethnicities
approximations
flattened under an exposure in time

 

I entered a museum of stolen faces,
faces and ancestors, studied and documented
 
I

 

I am easily placed into this archive of faces
I approximate the measure of our noses
and the furrows in our brows

Hi

 

this lens, it looks. 
but how do I hold my camera?
how heavy is my lens? 
who brought the camera to you?
whom do you point it at?

 
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