Johanna Emeney
Resting Tremor
The last
three pictures
are blurs—
the swift sweep
of cheers,
the freeze-frame
flipbook arch
of head and neck
in laughter.
After all,
this persistence
of visioni:
the fan of one hand
on your knee,
caught out
when the rest
was still.
Johanna Emeney is a poet and teacher who lives on Auckland’s North Shore. She is currently studying for her PhD at Massey University. Jo co-tutors with her friend and colleague Ros Ali at the Michael King Writers’ Centre in Devonport.
i Persistence of vision is the phenomenon of the eye by
which an afterimage is thought to persist for approximately one
twenty-fifth of a second on the
retina.
(princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Persistence_of_vision.html)