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Forgotten Moments
I fall to my knees
Examine the ground before me
Try to remember
The language written there
Breathe the air
Count the clouds
I am ignorant
I have forgotten
The meaning of traces
The earth rotates
Days, months, years
Pass without notice
I question the moment
Past, present
Or simply eternity
A drawer opens
A housewife’s collection revealed
Forgotten moments
Notes on crumpled paper – a phone number
Coins – a nickel, a dime, some pennies
A pencil with broken point
A recipe for pecan pie
Three Rubber bands
Bits of string
Tiny red ball
Some jacks
Receipts
Stamps
Keys
Odds and ends
Hurriedly put away
Over time forgotten
Days, months, years
Past, present
Or simply eternity
Subtracting all
The hopes and fears
A lemon rind of time
Past or present
Spurn responsibility
Add – subtract
Days, months, years
This moment is all there is
What is forgotten no longer stings
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The Mag #125
A Memory Incomplete
All the way back in time
To the beginning of my story
We lived there on that small farm
It belonged to My Aunt Maggie
Strong, jolly, lovely crown of white hair
And My Uncle Fred
Small, wiry, couldn’t drink a coke “straight”
Together they harvested life
Lived it fully
One day they left the farm
I remember the last time
I saw them
Sitting on the sofa
What happened next
I do not know
They were such a big part
Of my young life
Then they were gone
Someone else lived on their farm
And we moved to town
Mother is gone now
I cannot ask her
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