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2 | title: Riptide of memory | ||
3 | id: riptide_memory | ||
4 | genre: verse | ||
5 | |||
6 | project: | ||
7 | title: Stark Raving | ||
8 | class: stark | ||
9 | order: 16 | ||
10 | next: | ||
11 | - title: About the author | ||
12 | link: about-the-author | ||
13 | - title: The Sixteenth Chapel | ||
14 | link: sixteenth-chapel | ||
15 | prev: | ||
16 | - title: Something about all music being performances of _4′33″_ in places where other bands happen to be playing | ||
17 | link: music-433 | ||
18 | - title: I think it's you (but it's not) | ||
19 | link: i-think-its-you | ||
20 | ... | ||
21 | |||
22 | Inside of my memory, the poem is another memory. \ | ||
23 | The air up here is thin, but the wind blows harder \ | ||
24 | than anywhere else I know. It threatens to rip \ | ||
25 | my body away, like [an angel of death][], to the stars. | ||
26 | |||
27 | In Arizona, I thought I would forget the rain, \ | ||
28 | forget its sound on a roof like a hard wind, forget \ | ||
29 | its smell like a far away ocean. Luckily for me \ | ||
30 | it rains here. Luckily, because I forget too easily. | ||
31 | |||
32 | In a dream, [my father is caught by a riptide][] off-shore. \ | ||
33 | He's pulled far out, far enough that the shoreline's \ | ||
34 | a line in his [memory][] on the horizon. I can see him \ | ||
35 | swimming, hand over hand, pulling his small weight | ||
36 | |||
37 | back to land. I see him as [another shipwreck][] victim, \ | ||
38 | coughing sand and seawater, beard woven with seaweed. \ | ||
39 | I see him laying there a long time. I see all this \ | ||
40 | as he tells me the story, years later, the riptide | ||
41 | |||
42 | only a [ghost][] in his memory, I only a child falling \ | ||
43 | asleep. My mother's making mayonnaise rolls \ | ||
44 | in the kitchen, a recipe I'll send for years later, \ | ||
45 | in Arizona, in the monsoon season, when my thirst | ||
46 | |||
47 | pulls me back home, my memory's lonesome twinkle \ | ||
48 | like [stars above the mountains][]. I'll send for it \ | ||
49 | and try to make them, but in the thin air they'll \ | ||
50 | crumble into dust like desert air, like a memory. | ||
51 | |||
52 | [an angel of death]: angeltoabraham.html | ||
53 | [my father is caught by a riptide]: father.html | ||
54 | [memory]: ouroboros_memory.html | ||
55 | [another shipwreck]: shipwright.html | ||
56 | [ghost]: 100-lines.html | ||
57 | [stars above the mountains]: finding-the-lion.html | ||