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1 | <!DOCTYPE html> | 1 | <!DOCTYPE html> |
2 | <!-- Template for compiled 'Autocento' documents --> | 2 | <!-- AUTOCENTO OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE --> |
3 | <!-- vim: fdm=indent --> | ||
3 | <html lang="en"> | 4 | <html lang="en"> |
4 | <head> | 5 | <head> |
5 | <meta charset="utf-8"> | 6 | <meta charset="utf-8"> |
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23 | <!-- <script src="js/external.js"> </script> --> | 24 | <!-- <script src="js/external.js"> </script> --> |
24 | </head> | 25 | </head> |
25 | <body> | 26 | <body> |
27 | |||
28 | <article id="container"> | ||
29 | <header> | ||
30 | <!-- title --> | ||
31 | <h1 class="title">Riptide of memory</h1> | ||
32 | |||
26 | 33 | ||
27 | <article id="container"> | 34 | </header> |
28 | <header> | ||
29 | <!-- title --> | ||
30 | <h1 class="title">Riptide of memory</h1> | ||
31 | |||
32 | |||
33 | |||
34 | </header> | ||
35 | |||
36 | <section class="content verse"> | ||
37 | <p>Inside of my memory, the poem is another memory.<br />The air up here is thin, but the wind blows harder<br />than anywhere else I know. It threatens to rip<br />my body away, like <a href="angeltoabraham.html">an angel of death</a>, to the stars.</p> | ||
38 | <p>In Arizona, I thought I would forget the rain,<br />forget its sound on a roof like a hard wind, forget<br />its smell like a far away ocean. Luckily for me<br />it rains here. Luckily, because I forget too easily.</p> | ||
39 | <p>In a dream, <a href="father.html">my father is caught by a riptide</a> off-shore.<br />He’s pulled far out, far enough that the shoreline’s<br />a line in his <a href="ouroboros_memory.html">memory</a> on the horizon. I can see him<br />swimming, hand over hand, pulling his small weight</p> | ||
40 | <p>back to land. I see him as <a href="shipwright.html">another shipwreck</a> victim,<br />coughing sand and seawater, beard woven with seaweed.<br />I see him laying there a long time. I see all this<br />as he tells me the story, years later, the riptide</p> | ||
41 | <p>only a <a href="100-lines.html">ghost</a> in his memory, I only a child falling<br />asleep. My mother’s making mayonnaise rolls<br />in the kitchen, a recipe I’ll send for years later,<br />in Arizona, in the monsoon season, when my thirst</p> | ||
42 | <p>pulls me back home, my memory’s lonesome twinkle<br />like <a href="finding-the-lion.html">stars above the mountains</a>. I’ll send for it<br />and try to make them, but in the thin air they’ll<br />crumble into dust like desert air, like a memory.</p> | ||
43 | </section> | ||
44 | </article> | ||
45 | 35 | ||
36 | <section class="content verse"> | ||
37 | <p>Inside of my memory, the poem is another memory.<br />The air up here is thin, but the wind blows harder<br />than anywhere else I know. It threatens to rip<br />my body away, like <a href="angeltoabraham.html">an angel of death</a>, to the stars.</p> | ||
38 | <p>In Arizona, I thought I would forget the rain,<br />forget its sound on a roof like a hard wind, forget<br />its smell like a far away ocean. Luckily for me<br />it rains here. Luckily, because I forget too easily.</p> | ||
39 | <p>In a dream, <a href="father.html">my father is caught by a riptide</a> off-shore.<br />He’s pulled far out, far enough that the shoreline’s<br />a line in his <a href="ouroboros_memory.html">memory</a> on the horizon. I can see him<br />swimming, hand over hand, pulling his small weight</p> | ||
40 | <p>back to land. I see him as <a href="shipwright.html">another shipwreck</a> victim,<br />coughing sand and seawater, beard woven with seaweed.<br />I see him laying there a long time. I see all this<br />as he tells me the story, years later, the riptide</p> | ||
41 | <p>only a <a href="100-lines.html">ghost</a> in his memory, I only a child falling<br />asleep. My mother’s making mayonnaise rolls<br />in the kitchen, a recipe I’ll send for years later,<br />in Arizona, in the monsoon season, when my thirst</p> | ||
42 | <p>pulls me back home, my memory’s lonesome twinkle<br />like <a href="finding-the-lion.html">stars above the mountains</a>. I’ll send for it<br />and try to make them, but in the thin air they’ll<br />crumble into dust like desert air, like a memory.</p> | ||
43 | </section> | ||
44 | </article> | ||
46 | <nav> | 45 | <nav> |
47 | <a class="prevlink" href="music-433.html" | 46 | <a class="prevlink" href="music-433.html" |
48 | title="Next article in Stark Raving"> | 47 | title="Next article in Stark Raving"> |
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62 | The Sixteenth Chapel | 61 | The Sixteenth Chapel |
63 | </a> | 62 | </a> |
64 | </nav> | 63 | </nav> |
65 | </body> | 64 | </body> |
66 | </html> | 65 | </html> |