Lightning Window
Photography, 7" x 10"
Roger Camp is the author of three photography books including the award winningButterflies in Flight,Thames & Hudson, 2002. His documentary photography has been awarded the Europe’s prestigious Leica Medal of Excellence and published in numerous journals includingThe New England Review, New York Quarterly,andNorth American Review.
Moving Day
Kelly Jackson
On the day we moved in, we spent the first hour scrubbing vomit from the car seats. There were cockroaches, dead, by the fireplace; the kitchen stove reeked of leaking gas. I thought we'd look back and laugh. We didn’t know it was an omen. Get out! Our bodies screamed. We turned up the music and danced instead. Painted walls, ordered pizzas, drew smiles on our faces bandaged aches with phrases like "places are just places" But now the green’s all gone, the branches are bare, our wistfulness wilted The dream was just a desert mirage And we still call our old place home.