Luke Normsy - Foliate Oak Literary Magazine
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by  Luke Normsy

The first snowfall of significance
I was doing the driveway
and the neighbors came out:


man, wife, child.


They did all the standard things
sledding, snowballs, a
half-assed snowman made of
chunks from the plow.


The wife photographed
all of it with her
telephone.


After 10-15 minutes 
they went back inside.


Later those photos
will be on Facebook,
evidence of memories
that didn’t
not happen.


Then the plow came again
and undid all my
work, without my having
photographed any of it.


You will just have to take me
at my word.
Luke Normsy is a mid-level bureaucrat by day and a very-minor poet and photographer by night.  He lives in the same meaningless void as everyone else, but tries to be cheery about it.  His work has or will appear in Dirty Chai, Gravel, The Birds We Piled Loosely, Crab Fat, and Hypertrophic.  Masochists and other interested parties can dig his work on Google+.