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Poems about memory, afterimages, and what keeps returning.

If you are looking for poems about memory, these are the ones that live in afterimages: held moments, replayed scenes, and the kinds of remembering that refuse to stay still.

Memory changes the room around a poem. Read these slowly and let the echoes accumulate.

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Archive entry 21

The shards that slice your hands

Each pivotal moment, Each crucial scene, frozen in time, Buried deep beneath the protective membrane

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Archive entry 23

Your warm breath

There's something you will do, Before the clock sweeps past nine, That will make time stand on its head,

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Archive entry 35

That only you can feel

The absence of a guiding hand, The touch you missed— Forced you to feel every nuance

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Archive entry 53

Out of any other

How does it look through The glass of the window blown by memory?

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Archive entry 90

Freeze-frames

Each of the freeze-frames of your worst moments dance in front of the mirror as it sparkles

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Archive entry 44

The times you were held

The times you were held in those rare, accidental pauses, in the early mornings before you

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