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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

First Experience


Memory is reductive.

It creates flash cards
of random events
and flips through them
when we recall one.

But no matter how good,
flash cards can never
resurrect the body
of the first experience.

2 comments:

  1. Dr. MikeMay 21, 2013 at 9:01 PM



    What Flash Cards Do

    Stanza by stanza
    They defeat chance by telling
    Similar stories.

    Each face, heraldry
    Of arms or birds, mimics its
    Iconography.

    Some worship one sign
    And paint with sharp strokes the dye
    That curls up its tail.

    The flip side of each
    Card sets perimeters for
    The intangible.

    To internalize
    Language, cross over thresholds;
    Shuffle back and forth.

    An answer appears
    About which everyone
    Questions the meaning.

    And these pass the time,
    These alternate versions
    That always stay hearts.

    Joined at the hip are
    Chance and mutability
    To double each sentence.

    [Disposable Poem May 21, 2013]
    Dr, Mike

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  2. Dr. MikeMay 21, 2013 at 11:56 PM

    Don't belittle or/Demean the consolation/Than card games provide.

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