The name of a really cheaply made medium format camera.

It's made of plastic, with a single shutter speed, three aperature settings, and three focus settings. It was introduced quite a few years ago, so the lenses suck, and rely on the large negative to give acceptable results.

These cameras have severe quality control problems, to the point that no two Dianas have the same shutter speed, and all Dianas have light leaks. Adherents consider these faults to be features.

Though these cameras should have faded to obscurity, artsy photographers have used them to take interesting pictures. People trying to be artsy with cameras followed, and drove the prices of these cameras to around $50 for mint examples. For the same price, one could get other, used medium format cameras that would take much better pictures, at least technically.

  for Diana herself (R.I.P.) and her stepmother, who cared for her


Pets,              left unfed,          but
not by you,     not by
          the before


Texas
roads itself      northward
for corrections,         recuperation,    for
reestablishing          familial connections
knots           and         meditations (who would
eventually become)     medications,


Digestions,
down                to      the      letter,
                     a prescription
                    marooned armchairs
                     in-residence
   the pursuit
and
   the residue
of
                 ...a fallen presence


Down to leafing
                               through careful rooms
trying to motivate yourself
                                           to sort through
the thimbles and the thread
                              of everything around you


Oklahoma can count its friends on its eyelashes
and can talk us                             ...to death
                                              to contraction,
making us sink
                                                inward, from
closing spaces          and           sinking bones


    With no way of knowing
    the strength of direction
                                                  too much or too little,
                                              who gives us the rooms?
    whose thread encircles us?
                                                spinebound and scarlet,

who could ever be early in taking death's majestic blanket?
whose eyes have been settled      so hungry in the thicket?

Di*a"na (?), n. [L. Diana.] Myth.

The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis.

And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade. Pope.

Diana monkey Zool., a handsome, white-bearded monkey of West Africa (Cercopithecus Diana).

 

© Webster 1913.

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