Chasing Ephemera - Steve Trenam

[Larry Robinson]

Chasing Ephemera

Ansel Adams slept
on the roof of his car,
venturing out on foot
into Death Valley until
the desert sun relented,

and drew a perfect line
down the spine of a sand dune
into his Korona camera.

Galen Rowell stepped off
the bus at twelve thousand feet,
and took off chasing a rainbow, 
while his colleagues opted
for the warmth of a stove.

Rowell ran until he caught 
the rainbow as it streamed down
onto the Dalai Lama’s palace.
Camera braced against a post,
he captured more than he saw.

Mark Zukowski, awakened
by a full moon peering
into a Tomales Bay cabin,
donned his robe and waited
for a sonata—
a composition of moonlight
and the glow from a shack
at the end of a pier.

A photograph 
that further proves,
artists perpetuate 
the fleeting, unrepeatable 
moment.

	- Steve Trenam

	
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