Daguerreotype Taken in Old Age

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I know I changehave changed

but whose is this vapid facepitted and vast, rotundsuspended in empty paperas though in a telescope

the granular moon

I rise from my chairpulling against gravityI turn awayand go out into the garden

I revolve among the vegetables,my head ponderousreflecting the sunin shadows from the pocked ravinescut in my cheeks, my eye-sockets 2 craters

among the pathsI orbitthe apple treeswhite white spinningstars around me

I am beingeaten away by light

© Margaret Atwood