This Poem was Submitted By: carole j mennie On Date: 2001-11-30 17:19:08 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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I Study Our Photos

I study our photos relentlessly on still winter evenings. Views in living color, Kodak moments filling up albums,  filling up shoe boxes, not filling up me. See, ski slope still-lives. you with apple-red cheeks. Me--Chiquita banana  in yellow boots. A fruity duo, distant, posed,  two painted figurines  insinuated in fresh snow. In bed at night I open my eyes to darkness, doing my best to reconstruct you. Eyes, chin, lips, nose, the imperfect ears, all free-floating fragments unwilling to coalesce. Thank god I can still  bury my face in your old sweater. Your scent lingers there, molecules, suspended in thick gray wool. You are not lost to me completely.

Copyright © November 2001 carole j mennie


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