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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Last passenger | ||
3 | id: last-passenger | ||
4 | genre: verse | ||
5 | |||
6 | project: | ||
7 | title: Autocento of the breakfast table | ||
8 | class: autocento | ||
9 | |||
10 | TODO: revise based on reading notes | ||
11 | ... | ||
12 | |||
13 | Memory works strangely, [spooling its thread][] \ | ||
14 | over the [nails of events][] barely related, \ | ||
15 | creating finally some picture, if we're \ | ||
16 | lucky, of a life---but more likely, it knots \ | ||
17 | itself, catches on a nail or in our throats \ | ||
18 | that gasp, as it binds our necks, for air. | ||
19 | |||
20 | An example: today marks one hundred years \ | ||
21 | since your namesake, the last living passenger \ | ||
22 | pigeon, died in Cincinnati. It also marks \ | ||
23 | a year since we last spoke. Although around \ | ||
24 | the world, zoos mourn her loss, I'm done \ | ||
25 | with you. I mourn no more your voice, the first \ | ||
26 | sound I heard outside my body that reached \ | ||
27 | [into my throat and set me ringing][]. But that string--- | ||
28 | |||
29 | memory that feels sometimes more like a tide \ | ||
30 | has yoked together, bound your voice to that bird, \ | ||
31 | the frozen, stuffed, forgotten pigeon---my heart \ | ||
32 | is too easy, but it must do---to blink, to flex \ | ||
33 | its unused toes, slowly thaw to the wetness \ | ||
34 | of [beating wings][], fly to me again, and alight, \ | ||
35 | singing full-throated, on my broken shoulder. | ||
36 | |||
37 | [spooling its thread]: roughgloves.html | ||
38 | [nails of events]: when-im-sorry-i.html | ||
39 | [into my throat and set me ringing]: weplayedthosegamestoo.html | ||
40 | [beating wings]: cold-wind.html | ||