Photograph

He washed his feet for the picture,
even his knees,
and wondered about that man
who cared enough to want him to sit there
for a photograph,
even though he didn't have
nothing good to hold in his hands,
nor even a dog to sit by his chair.
It gave him, briefly,
some sort of feeling
of just being
enough.

Cynthia Rylant


Photo by Walker Evans, hired by the Farm Security
Administration to document the country during the
Great Depression