Photographs' mat and glossy candor
Capture romance and banality
Possibility and disappointment
Kept in thick black pages
None too carefully by aging aunts
Whose siblings beat them to heaven
So they maintained the family history
As best they could for dwindling
Survivors who no longer knew
Who the proud people were in front
Of the wooden store somewhere
In Acadian Canada before the
Moves to Massachusetts
And Rhode Island