What Remains
Not the obvious moments from a life–
not the announced and documented moments
graduations and weddings
births, deaths
The mind returns to times
that take us by surprise
tap dancing in an Iowa City studio
doing the jitterbug with a stranger in Custer
sleeping with the summer cabin staff under the stars
eating a ripe peach with relatives in Monteombraro
watching bees with your family in a gazebo in Tennessee
We draw on these unconstructed moments
like emotional capital
that lifts us out of place and time
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Yes! Remains……
Love these images, Gaby…..
For me, this week, it was “bomb pops” at Daytona beach, with my sister….(back when cars could drive on the sand)….
I love the images here, and how this poem has such a strong and compelling rhetoric to it
We draw on these unconstructed moments
like emotional capital
that lifts us out of place and time
So true. I often wonder what this new generation coming up will do with these moments, if they notice them, they are so caught up on social media and photo taking.