Remembrances

Such remembrances we have….

We might mark a certain date,

celebrate it every year,

or keep a tattered square

of cloth from a childhood quilt, 

or carry a frayed picture

of a grandmother or cousin;

we might have pressed petals,

yellowing letters, or faded 

Christmas cards….

But sometimes we just hold 

intangible, precious memories 

inside, safe in a room

only we can enter, locked 

in our heart’s chest,

a willingness to remember

becomes our only way in.

—C.L. Fisher, October 2021

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