Firsts.jpeg (13k) Who are we, that we could be
without the memories and images,
those good times we hunt and chase
always trying, never able to recapture?


We haunt a myth of ourselves,
whether the corner bar
or fantasy corners of childhood . . .


Summers spent at cottages and cabins,
burrowing through attics and ancestral chests,
. . . the farm, the beaches, schools, and yards,
the streets we cruised on Friday night.

Our umbilicals remain unsevered.

We never really leave behind
the textures of the past.
Always we move in retro,
falling upon our own history,
finding fresher versions of ourselves.

Give me some good times
1957


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