Salt

Peter Schireson's The Salt is a chapbook of 21 poems which touch on a wide range of subjects, including romantic love, the nature of the self, aging, and loss.
Self-Portrait with Tree
I want to have you,
I murmur
to the photograph in an airport
of a tree on a ridge,
its frail silver gelatin silhouette
leaning against a bright sky.
The shadow hovering
at the edge of the frame
must be me.