The Archivist

Some may think of memories

Only covered in dust with

Pages fading into opaque forgetting

 

But memory doesn’t have to work like that

And if our honesty

Does not blur and fade

 

We find our memory

In shards of talk

In whispers and glimpses

 

You see, memory is a meal

Savory…bitter…sweet…salty

And water to cleanse the tongue

 

We make our memory

In shards of talk

“Remember that time…?”

9 thoughts on “The Archivist

  1. LOVE THIS! You came out swinging and hit a home run! I am looking forward to your other pieces. Before the day is through I will hit them all. (Although now I have MJ in my head as an earworm).

    Lovely piece

  2. We make our memories in shards of thoughts! Great title – The Archivist and not The Archive, further hitting upon the poem’s theme of the personal construct of memory. Bravo!

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