photo :  there is nothing like a beautiful closed door to draw my photographic attention, so symbolic, in my eye anyway, of what is hiding in our shadows, this one in Ollantayambo, next to the Sacred Valley, Peru

we laughed to keep it simple

for we knew everything that

needed to be done and said

but when we opened the door

to the forgotten and neglected shadow for too many years

we would find the key

to the night and with wide open eyes

filled with questions about  « what if »  « what if »

*posted in 2025, edited in 2026