Memory Wax

Memory’s wax melts in your ear; what was your name?

Spotlights melt

The wax of memory;

Birds fly unformed,

Flustered.  

The letter gets lost but still retrieves its recipient

from the dispositional attitude of an address,

internal connection between arrow and halfway eaten waxy apple.

From one freedom to the next

What you say I will also say,

But after you stop saying it

Unfortunately, what I saying will crumble.

We wax our surfboards to stick through waters slip,

But to wax is ultimately to grow

 


by francis raven


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