24 April 2020

Memories That Dance in the Rain

Childhood memories
tiptoe, twist,
tango, and tap dance
their way among
the drops

Drops of rain
onto the photographs
of our minds,

embrittled from
our oily hands,
whose loving touch
has left them
bent and warped  

Drops
inadvertently
embellished
with family lore

and yellowed
from the endless
procession of 
sunlight

until we can 
no longer tell
which moisture
is the true
memory of sweat
and which drops
were simply
the result
of the rain


24 Apr 2020

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