Remember?
Of course I do. A December day
some sixty years ago. I loved you,
though I never found the words.
We walked home from school
together, hand in gloved hand,
fresh snow in your dark hair.
I never found those words, either,
but I haven’t forgotten you once.
Why can’t I recall your name now?
(after an undated, untitled photograph in the project, “Demo Roll,” by Matthew Moore)
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Sweet in reminiscence, tragic in truth. I like how this ends on a question.
Ain’t it the truth?
What beauty here in an unrequited love. What a wonderful last line, too. Wistful. Real.
Thank you. The image that sparked this wouldn’t accept any other words.