Inspired by patients who present childhood photographs as part of adult treatment, this essay considers how unformulated elements of the queer and trans childhood enter (or, resist entering) the psychoanalytic field. While some childhoods are readily recallable and memories abound, often there is a present absence – a no “there-there” – and the unknowable past seeks expression in creative ways. Informed by actual photographs and scenes that come alive in treatment, the analyst’s imagistic reverie may serve as a portal to the Otherness of early queer and trans self-experience, which had to be dissociated in the face of traumatic negation and nonrecognition by the cis/heteronormative social order. Centering on the photographic image and Barthes’s concept of punctum, this essay will consider the generative power of the negative, the analyst’s private space, and ideas on reverie. If we allow ourselves to see the queer child, to let them hover in imagistic reverie, there is an invitation for recognition, in afterwardsness. This essay wonders: Can the eye listen in ways that the ear cannot?