"... old portraits in a dark house..."
[From "The Secret Garden",
a Father Brown mystery,
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
Upon the wall of my mind's museum,
Dim in this fading light of age
Faces from my fast forgotten past,
Memories faintly glimpsed
By the flare of far off lightning
A fading storm of desire to
See and hear and feel once more,
Those faces briefly viewed in
The flickering light of memory.
Donovan Baldwin
