Four Pictures
Shortly following birth
To age ten or eleven
His father behind the camera
Domestic scenes
In the kitchen of the blue bungalow
On the couch, faded velvet
In wraparound shades, cradling an oversized empty
The height of comedy
Age twelve to fifteen
Gawky
In jeans and a t-shirt in the 104° summer
What could be Belgium or France
Background a Zoetrope of various pastoral scenes
Intercut with ancient cities
Age sixteen to twenty-three
There is a blank spot here
An interlude of several years
From which we have only one photo
Taken by an unknown acquaintance
With one of those briefly trendy revivalist Polaroids
He stands eyes to some unseen horizon
Cigarette held just outside the frame
Not yet the inheritor of broad shoulders
A city which could be Toronto or New York
Absent defining landmarks
Age twenty-four to present
Re-emerged in galleries
Behind the lens mostly
Fit and cleaner cut
Passionate
Haunted
Ben Horrobin was born at the tender age of zero in Vancouver, BC. He can be found on Instagram @kudzureclaimsthesouth.