Derecho to Jericho
I found a piece of you
Reaching through time
The shape of the heart
The lilt of joy,
the considered life
in the fingers,
in the loops
I find a piece of you in the closet
I’ve neglected to organize
and for a moment it’s a jolt
as looking into your eyes
After 2 years,
looking back into your hopes and joys
when buying the laptop
knowing you would fill it with photographs
I haven’t looked into your laptop yet,
I’ve not had it in me
I hope that when I do,
that I can find the password
and I can use the laptop cord
you wrote your name on
I, as a painter, You, as a pianist
The use of fingers to make vibrations palpable,
to make marks upon another’s soul
A CIA agent would know
your state of mind
at the time of writing,
and I can feel it too,
a shock of your ISness,
your Beingness,
your brain.
Though I know your infinite self is still around,
your physical thoughts are palpable through my eyes
to my heart
through your handwriting.
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Beautiful, beautiful, deep and sweet. “I love the I, as a painter, You, as a pianist” stanza. That ties it all together for me, and I can feel the handwritten name through the full of the poem. Utterly beautiful.
Thank you for that observation of the handwriting coming through. I try to use a minimal amount of “brushstrokes” which leaves a lot of sketchy details. So nice to hear that it’s enough for the reader!
Dang, this poem was a trip, and I totally feel like I’m caught in the titular derecho that comes from these reminders. Impressive work.
Thank you so much!
There is so much meaning packed into each stanza!
Thank you so much!
So to sum it up, my mother died a few years ago and I came across her laptop cord she had written her name on. In that moment I felt her again as if she were by my side and we were reading each other’s minds. It got me thinking how much of our mind and heart essence goes directly through our fingers to our writing. I hope that the idea I had comes across!
I thought it was interesting that her name is “Rachel” and mine “Jerielle”, and after I had already written the title and published and was reading it for the first time on the page, I noticed the title had a second meaning… “Recho” and “Jeri” being the two of us.
Beautiful. Sweet tribute.