Poems about memory
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.
Sublimated Abstraction
Each pivotal moment, Each crucial scene, frozen in time, Buried deep beneath the protective membrane Of memory— Ice-glass sculptures of your former selves.
Keep readingYour Warm Breath
There's something you will do, Before the clock sweeps past nine, That will make time stand on its head, Etched in your memory forever— The apotheosis of childhood imagination.
Keep readingThe Touch You Missed
The absence of a guiding hand, The touch you missed— Forced you to feel every nuance Of the surfaces With your own.
Keep readingBlown Glass
How does it look through The glass of the window blown by memory? You can mind-hop, but you can't really see
Keep readingTake That Fucking Mirror Down
Each of the freeze-frames of your worst moments dance in front of the mirror as it sparkles in the darkness— blinding you from yourself.
Keep readingSunburn
The times you were held in those rare, accidental pauses, in the early mornings before you walked out the door on the way to school,
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