Tag Archives: divorce
White elephant
I Having outlived our reciprocal usefulness, we mull the stubborn residue of the situation: the nostalgia of remembering, the impunity of forgetting, how the past may persuade the present, but not indefinitely; how time makes plain what romance adorns. The gifts we cherished have become white elephants; gold spun patiently into straw. II Choosing honesty, […]
Leave nothing out
Love appreciated, she thought, is a well-wrought poem, each gesture essential, any omission a violence, an ignorance of what is necessary. Elision may support a lie, ellipsis an efficiency, yet speaking a tongue we only half-shared, how could we know what was true, and what expendable? The last stanza, she thinks, should say nothing, leave […]
Months later
I imagine you return in the clothes I laid out for you. How perfectly they fit your form; made for you, I think. We sit down to the feast we never shared. Did I, after all, misconstrue your style? Or did your shape shift beneath collapsing fabric? Still hungry, I wonder what you wear now, […]
Meditatio Ephemera 