March 7, 1839,
a tall man wearing a hat
got a shoe shine
on a Paris street.
We know this because
Daguerre standing at a distance
captured this, his first human form,
on a silvered copper plate.
The tall man getting a shoe shine
appears not to have noticed
– taken unawares.
Perhaps the street
hummed, sang, rattled
with people scurrying,
ambling, proceeding apace.
But that is at best
a reasonable surmise,
a likely conjecture,
a mere supposition.
We do not know because
if they were there,
they were moving and so
invisible to Daguerre’s camera.
Only the tall man
wearing a hat
getting his shoes shined
on a Paris street
stood still long enough
to become immortal.
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