The Invention Of The Kaleidoscope

Once in 1931, fresh from Hong Kong, you posed for the camera in a silk dress, still as if stuffed, aware and not aware the foreign shores were home. Your bobbed locks, I once wrote, impossibly black, a tar waterfall marcelled as if to death - this was the hair we saw on you, not the white, hood-like boy's cap we later cut and pasted to your skull.