Queer Memory Phenomenon

inconceivable, and yet cannot be doubted

            wax on a wing
            perfectly impersonating flight

we cannot say that the deaf-mute was wrong in his

memory of having thoughts before he could speak.

provide ecological memory to disturbed areas

                  in one ear and then it sinks

                  makes tubes around tubes

silent memory of peace,

and yet, false.  Is a childhood memory

a memory someone has when he was a child

or a memory one has now

of being a child?


by francis raven


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