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burning the memories

Linda M. Crate

i saw a robin with a worm in it’s beak
reminding me of you and the rare occasion
in which you would arise early, strategy
to face the day at hand; everything always
carefully planned out with no spontaneity
isn’t it boring never to have something random
leap out into the forest of your trees? or do
you prefer never having newness of brightly covered
leaves falling onto your desk or the song of birds
nesting in your ears? always there’s a time and a season
for you but one never spills into the next; always
ordered and acutely aware of everything you must do
i am just an afterthought that you keep around because i make
you feel good and offer you flattery you don’t always deserve —
silence falls between us hanging heavily as winter,
promised calls never come and i wonder if i shouldn’t bother
having expectations then maybe i wouldn’t be hurt so badly when
you don’t bother following through? i’m always the option
that you rarely have time to take, so let me make it easy for you
i’ll take that worm from your beak and we’ll call it even —
flying away into some sunlit oblivion of orange and crimson i will forget
all the places we made ours, and i will embrace the fragrance of pines
letting every bird of me you’ve grown in me fly away until all that
remains are the memories to be burned away by the sun.



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