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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Last passenger | ||
3 | genre: verse | ||
4 | |||
5 | project: | ||
6 | title: Autocento of the breakfast table | ||
7 | css: autocento | ||
8 | ... | ||
9 | |||
10 | Memory works strangely, spooling its thread \ | ||
11 | over the nails of events barely related, \ | ||
12 | creating finally some picture, if we’re \ | ||
13 | lucky, of a life---but more likely, it knots \ | ||
14 | itself, catches on a nail or in our throats \ | ||
15 | that gasp, as it binds our necks, for air. | ||
16 | |||
17 | An example: today marks one hundred years \ | ||
18 | since your namesake, the last living passenger \ | ||
19 | pigeon, died in Cincinnati. It also marks \ | ||
20 | one year since we last spoke. Although around \ | ||
21 | the world, zoos mourn her loss, I'm done \ | ||
22 | with you. I mourn no more your voice, the first \ | ||
23 | sound I heard outside my body that reached \ | ||
24 | into my throat and set me ringing. But that string--- | ||
25 | |||
26 | memory that feels sometimes more like a tide \ | ||
27 | has yoked together, bound your voice to that bird, \ | ||
28 | the frozen, stuffed, forgotten pigeon---my heart \ | ||
29 | is too easy, but it must do---to blink, to flex \ | ||
30 | its unused toes, slowly thaw to the wetness \ | ||
31 | of beating wings, fly to me again, and alight, \ | ||
32 | singing full-throated, on my broken shoulder. | ||