This Poem was Submitted By: carole j mennie On Date: 2001-12-20 14:18:44 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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I Study Our Photographs

I study our photographs relentlessly on still winter evenings. Views in living color, captured moments filling albums filling shoeboxes (but not filling me). See! Ski slope still-lives, you with apple-red cheeks, me--Chiquita Banana in yellow boots, distant, posed, two painted figurines insinuated in fresh snow. In bed at night I open my eyes to darkness, do my best to reconstruct you. Eyes, chin, lips, nose, the imperfect ears, all of you 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 © December 2001 carole j mennie

Additional Notes:
A 'gentle' rewrite of a poem I submitted in November.


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