The FAB&PP Poem of the Month for August 1999
TWO TRAVELING POEMS
1.
smiling at moments that
never happened he
writes, pauses, again
his thoughts a passage
not of stone and light
time not
memorialized
or memorized
thinking again with old
experience added
exchanging into memory
with the slip of a synapse
moving from neocortex
to hippocampus
the spirit, fed
while sleeping, awakes
a burst of memory
immediacy receding
a gift
to each age
[the salt and
pepper shakers
shaped like tiny
one-props
squatting,
watching
the progress of
the poet]
west to east
writing in
stiff ink from a
5 cent pen
with
courtesy and good
intention matching
shabby
reality
"this here is Brixton"
narrates the cabbie
and
this too is time
passing beneath the
wing
2.
not in any place
long enough
for the
ordinary to become
obvious
June 26 - July 7, 1999
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