somewhere between brevity and perpetuality there is an empty space where our shared memories rest together – never lost and never severed – somewhere between change and constancy, a state beyond expression and beyond the limits of thinking, there is […]
Poems about memory, or memories to be more exact.
Some of the poems deal with how memories work. Even more deal with the certainty that they get altered and diluted over time.
Feelings that are strong at the outset become distant memories and as a result almost impossible to recall.
The fact that people retain a timeline of their lives is incredible when you consider how flawed our memory is.
Some of these poems are about concrete memories. But most are about how memory functions in general. How its strength wanes, how it alters – and also how it is ultimately lost when someone dies.