FRAME BY FRAME • by Barbara Fletcher

This film is for you:
stripped down and ripped
from hours of footage,
the fleeting exchanges
in bars and boardrooms and emails
spliced and edited into these three minutes
watch
the passionate flashes in black and white
still life flickered into action,
a stuttered slideshow of you,
not me
not yet.

This film is you:
Highlights of a hundred moments
of careful focus, of hidden camera capture
condensed into 180 seconds:

stolen moments in succession
this documentary of obsession.

Barbara Fletcher has published poems in publications ranging from well-established journals to zines briefly committed to pixels. She founded and edits the writers’ resource site, [places for writers]. She calls Toronto her home but knows that she will always be a smalltown Ontario girl.

Posted on December 10, 2008 in Poems
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4 Responses to “FRAME BY FRAME • by Barbara Fletcher”


  1. dellfarmer Says:
    December 10th, 2008 at 2:16 am

    Waht!? Only 3 minutes? Oh I love me so….
    Fine work, this. I salute you.

  2. Robin Herrnfeld Says:
    December 10th, 2008 at 4:32 am

    Beautifully written, Barbara, really.

  3. Oonah V Joslin Says:
    December 10th, 2008 at 6:37 am

    Thank you for sending us this lovely poem.

  4. R Jay Slais Says:
    December 11th, 2008 at 2:21 am

    One can feel at home inside this piece, lovely writing, enjoyed reading it. Congrats!

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