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2 | title: Riptide of memory | ||
3 | genre: verse | ||
4 | |||
5 | id: riptide_memory | ||
6 | toc: "Riptide of memory" | ||
7 | |||
8 | project: | ||
9 | title: Stark Raving | ||
10 | class: stark | ||
11 | order: 16 | ||
12 | next: | ||
13 | - title: About the author | ||
14 | link: about-the-author | ||
15 | - title: The Sixteenth Chapel | ||
16 | link: sixteenth-chapel | ||
17 | prev: | ||
18 | - title: Something about all music being performances of _4′33″_ in places where other bands happen to be playing | ||
19 | link: music-433 | ||
20 | - title: I think it's you (but it's not) | ||
21 | link: i-think-its-you | ||
22 | ... | ||
23 | |||
24 | | Inside of my memory, the poem is another memory. | ||
25 | | The air up here is thin, but the wind blows harder | ||
26 | | than anywhere else I know. It threatens to rip | ||
27 | | my body away, like [an angel of death][], to the stars. | ||
28 | |||
29 | | In Arizona, I thought I would forget the rain, | ||
30 | | forget its sound on a roof like a hard wind, forget | ||
31 | | its smell like a far away ocean. Luckily for me | ||
32 | | it rains here. Luckily, because I forget too easily. | ||
33 | |||
34 | | In a dream, [my father is caught by a riptide][] off-shore. | ||
35 | | He's pulled far out, far enough that the shoreline's | ||
36 | | a line in his [memory][] on the horizon. I can see him | ||
37 | | swimming, hand over hand, pulling his small weight | ||
38 | |||
39 | | back to land. I see him as [another shipwreck][] victim, | ||
40 | | coughing sand and seawater, beard woven with seaweed. | ||
41 | | I see him lying there a long time. I see all this | ||
42 | | as he tells me the story, years later, the riptide | ||
43 | |||
44 | | only a [ghost][] in his memory, I only a child falling | ||
45 | | asleep. My mother's making mayonnaise rolls | ||
46 | | in the kitchen, a recipe I'll send for years later, | ||
47 | | in Arizona, in the monsoon season, when my thirst | ||
48 | |||
49 | | pulls me back home, my memory's lonesome twinkle | ||
50 | | like [stars above the mountains][]. I'll send for it | ||
51 | | and try to make them, but in the thin air they'll | ||
52 | | crumble into dust like desert air, like a memory. | ||
53 | |||
54 | [an angel of death]: angeltoabraham.html | ||
55 | [my father is caught by a riptide]: father.html | ||
56 | [memory]: ouroboros_memory.html | ||
57 | [another shipwreck]: shipwright.html | ||
58 | [ghost]: one-hundred-lines.html | ||
59 | [stars above the mountains]: finding-the-lion.html | ||