Eye Behind Eye / I Behind I
By Niall Twohig
Something in the human eye
Sees better than a camera sees:
Foreground and background
are more enmeshed
than the photo shows.
There’s no truer true to life
image
than the one seen
but never captured.
Viewing the photo above,
The viewer will never see
your crown of stars
will never see
angels of light
playing in your hair
(Reader, see them)
The camera’s
Image pulls You apart,
separates You into
foreground and
background
subject and
object
you and
not-you.
The eye
knows better
than image—
But some redemption
exists in image:
See the rainbows,
cradling you,
an imperfect
image of subtle lightflows
flows
between us,
flows
felt by eye behind eye
flows
felt by I behind I.