Glaucoma

Larvae undulate along the edges
of the images photochemical ephemeral

swept across the surface
then dragged down into deeper glimmerings

Dun-colored leaves sunlit
at the bottom of a pond

A photo in Life magazine
A boy my age 11 summer 1970

David Finitz swept across the surface
of the rapids

on his makeshift raft Dragged
over Niagara Falls

Among the helpless gathered horrified
a photographer lets everybody see

how seeing drags us to the sightless
bottom of the falls

Blind Willie Johnson presses
fingers to the strings of his guitar

and hums dark night cold ground
a lullaby to mortal fear

David Finitz finite finished glimmers
in the very speaking of his name