The Photo

Floor to ceiling piece
in black and white
fools me--a photo
from a distance--life size
so that if I move closer
I can enter the doorway
to that room where a chair
with a curved back faces
away, surprised to discover
its charcoal and paper
shadows fool me, like a flashof
figure out of the corner
of my eye, keep thinking
you're there, that you're one thing
then upon inspection discover
still gone, still dead, not there-
the other thing.