Antique Shop by Robert Castagna

Their granddaughter

still hunts for secrets

in the amputated hands

of antique figures.

And in her shop

the mannequins play along,

their eyes staring back

at our blank faces.

Robert Castagna teaches Pictures and Poetry at a local senior center. As a photographer, he has received the Massachusetts Cultural Council Photography Fellowship and The Artist's Resource Trust Grant. He has published a book of photographs and poems entitled Borderlands. He is a returning student of creative writing attending UMass Boston.