Tag: memory
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reteach a thing its loveliness
for Robert Daniel & Stephanie Marie I can’t remember the words she used they are hazy at their edges now, but it was exactly this: a reteaching, a re-membering of the deepest spiritual kind. At once, I’d forgotten and remembered, the truest nature of myself how for 18 springs & all the summers and autumns thereafter, I…
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That Summer
august air, earth fat sunshine and sea salt Lake glass blue as Blue, as Billings, as Wyassup where it hailed that one night and we stayed to watch the sunrise. Plenty of rain, the New England way our town like a puddle, like a fishbowl, like that Mellencamp song. Those same spooling roads still Stony Brook,…
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EXCLAMATION POINTS
when I spray the 10-in-1 hair perfector on my dry(but-not-yet-splitting)ends the miracle spray smells like my adoptive sister Rachel smelled for most of 1989 it feels strange then, in 2025 to miss and remember the smell of an old black & white perfume bottle more than a person. after deciding last year that I’m not…
