The Witness Line
No bride, no groom, no officiant, no guests.
An empty room, photographed straight on from about eight feet, slightly crooked, in the flat light of a fluorescent ceiling.
I have no idea when he took it or why.
There is nothing on the back.
Teresa does not know.
The paper stock and the finish put it somewhere in the nineteen-nineties, which is all anybody has been able to tell me.
A man photographed an empty room at work, on a film camera, and had the film developed, and carried the print for twenty-five years through everything he lost.