We were told not to mention the asymmetry.
It would remind the half-orphan and his widowed mother
Of less happy times. Poor Abe.
I'm reminded that Cain in Hebrew means "yes"
But that could not have caused the missing man's death.
The reason I am not in the picture
Is that I'm introducing the photographer
To Minor White's zone system of photography.
Anyway I suspect I was holding the veil
Like a net for catching rice in.
I've put it in the place of the little dark curtain,
The type photographers enter to take old-fashioned 4x5 pictures.
Already my sister, the bride-in-the-making,
Has seen me catch her future brother-in-law,
the photographer, in my translucent net.
Nobody is smiling but the photographer and the cheese.
