[Leica] CANADIAN PHOTOJOURNALIST POEM

[Ted Grant]

Hi Crew, 
My niece in the UK is a very fine author/poet in early years and wrote this
poem about her Uncle Ted as a photojournalist.
Not bad for a young lady 16 yrs. I'd say.
cheers,
Ted Grant. CM
Dedicated to Canadian photojournalist, Uncle Ted Grant
<http://tedgrantphoto.com/> 
"Jesus Christ!
Would you look at that"
- then click!
His voice smoky
as the wind.
When he speaks
he looks to the distance,
ruddy horizons,
- blind in one eye
but the sight sharper.
At 83,
he still holds his camera
gently, but poised
- ready to pounce,
a hunter, a gatherer,
horse at the ready,
tracking life in its rawest
- moments unnoticed,
a flick of the spur!
An eye into focus.
Human nature bared,
unfiltered
- like a shot of whiskey,
smooth and rough,
"Don't think just click!"
His hands a little shaky now,
he flicks through his book; his work
- life mapped out
trodden tracks,
sudden sun on worn out paths.
His eyes
cool, calm, cantering quick,
though now, sometimes,
they well right up,
memories stirred like desert dust.
"Don't think too much"
he'd say, shaking his head,
"It's just life"
- a thousand lives
along the wrinkles of his cheeks.
and grabbing his stetson
swinging a camera round his chest,
he'd ride away into the sun
like there's nothing to it.
a silhouette.
against the horizon of life




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