Under The Stars
They lay there, looking up at the star filled sky Holding onto each other as if they were afraid the other may vanish in a dream Hand in hand, legs entwined…
The Words On The Wall
Can a man ever know what he cannot recall? Not at all, not at all! said the words on the wall. How is the man, when he has no intent? _He is spent, he is…
I'll Meet You in the Woods (memory)
_Candra sat, drowning in mud and weeping, the night was dark. Of course this would be the night that the moon would hide and the sky would cry in it’s absence…
The Song of the Sea
The silence got to me first. The darkness was nothing new. Space was dark, only punctate illuminations at an infinite distance. I rather liked that. The…
Saved By a Cowboy
“I remember being six or seven years old. My family was a lot different back then. My parents were still together--that was a nightmare. But anyway, they were…
Quiet Cloud; Slightly Sodden
That quiet cloud became a bird Yeah it did, busted out of its shell all spread eagle as hell Remember? Stormy weather; purpled feathers I haven’t forgotten It…
Goodbye
it’s too late to say goodbye All the things I never knew Never bothered to know Maybe I was little But you are never too little To learn Or To care The flood…
Parting is Such Sappy Sorrow, Such Confusing Pain
The sun filtered through the green needles with the first real heat of a Carolina summer. The ground felt hot on my back, or maybe I felt hot on the ground…
(Day 36) Operating
My name’s Rare. Mom tells me it’s short for something - a memory that she still has. There’s not much more of those, actually. I guess the origin of my name…
Take This Dance - Part 2
The boldness in Clara turned Edwin on. The words she chose may have not been proper, but she was direct none the less. “Don’t embarrass me.” They both entered…
Trees
The memory of you is clinging to me like the snow on so many trees rooted to the ground, alive but going nowhere. Sometimes I forget I’m not those trees…
Fufu in My Brain
They say, in some parts of Africa, you haven’t really eaten until you’ve eaten fufu. Fufu is flour and water boiled and stirred just about to the point that…
The Expatriate's Lament
A sigh for the countryside, green in the morn, Of the endless abundance of wheat and of corn. Memory hopes for a glimpse of the fields, Where the old Carolina…
The War Hero
I look back upon my life and question it’s purpose. I spend my nights haunted by visions of death and the losing of all worldly innocence at the singular pull…
The Fault, The Blame, The In Between
His contorted faces plague my sleeping eyes. There is one for each season, there is one for each disguise. But no, he is not the reason why. Although…
The Scent of Summer
My throat fought against the spore-clogged air, coughing up as much breath as it sucked down, as I slipped over the window sill. The glass was long gone and…
Taken: The Scent of Memory
A treacherous gust of wind extinguished my light with a hiss. As I returned the aged timepiece to my coat pocket I caught a scent that immediately roused a…
Living the secret
When scientists discovered that the section of our brain previously thought to house our imagination was, in fact, a receiver of far-off memories, it was only…
Shadow Meadow
The grass turned yellow, as it grew long in the summer heat laying flat on the ground. Where thick forests stood was now a maze of ashen totems of an earlier…
Mummy, daddy, I want to be a dolphin.
The implantation of one half of an entangled pair into each individual neuron at the 63rd day after conception is key. Earlier and we lack enough implanted…