The Art of Memory

Each morning I walk to school
before predawn numbness yields
to the articulate frosts of January.
Life is exquisite in the rain,
sharp in its poignance-
welcome to me.
Each day i walk past houses;
familar faces and vague memories of childhood
forming a collage of reminiscence
that bites me to the core.
Walking through the corridors of actuality
stumbling as the lines between then and now blur
fact and fabrication meshing into one glorious dream
I remember and I fade.

~Vicki Somers
2 January 2003
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