Friday, May 29, 2020

MEMORY BOX

To think—I am now sitting 
thoughtless
in the same kitchen 

in which I 
will have been standing 
then 

after I have deciphered 
my very next words.

*

These strange loops 
and chickenscratch x's 

may take on a prescient significance 
as imperceptibly 

as a snail 
secreting its shell. 

*

After the frame 
is in place, 

it's so difficult 
to remember 

It hasn't always been like this.

How do we expect to compete 
with the nostalgic stillframed past? 

Looking back, 
even every failure and deficiency 

was just so easy,
so precious,

so perfect.