From b5f04621a188ffd07463d66c233601a32e970f11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 16:46:17 -0700 Subject: First complete src/ linking complete --- src/riptide_memory.txt | 23 +++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'src/riptide_memory.txt') diff --git a/src/riptide_memory.txt b/src/riptide_memory.txt index 8274a8a..aecb191 100644 --- a/src/riptide_memory.txt +++ b/src/riptide_memory.txt @@ -20,32 +20,39 @@ project: link: i-think-its-you ... -Inside of my memory, the poem is another memory. \ +Inside of my memory, the poem is another memory. \ The air up here is thin, but the wind blows harder \ than anywhere else I know. It threatens to rip \ -my body away, like an angel of death, to the stars. +my body away, like [an angel of death][], to the stars. In Arizona, I thought I would forget the rain, \ forget its sound on a roof like a hard wind, forget \ its smell like a far away ocean. Luckily for me \ it rains here. Luckily, because I forget too easily. -In a dream, my father is caught by a riptide off-shore. \ +In a dream, [my father is caught by a riptide][] off-shore. \ He's pulled far out, far enough that the shoreline's \ -a line in his memory on the horizon. I can see him \ +a line in his [memory][] on the horizon. I can see him \ swimming, hand over hand, pulling his small weight -back to land. I see him as another shipwreck victim, \ -coughing sand and seawater, beard woven with seaweed. \ +back to land. I see him as [another shipwreck][] victim, \ +coughing sand and seawater, beard woven with seaweed. \ I see him laying there a long time. I see all this \ as he tells me the story, years later, the riptide -only a ghost in his memory, I only a child falling \ +only a [ghost][] in his memory, I only a child falling \ asleep. My mother's making mayonnaise rolls \ in the kitchen, a recipe I'll send for years later, \ in Arizona, in the monsoon season, when my thirst pulls me back home, my memory's lonesome twinkle \ -like stars above the mountains. I'll send for it \ +like [stars above the mountains][]. I'll send for it \ and try to make them, but in the thin air they'll \ crumble into dust like desert air, like a memory. + +[an angel of death]: angeltoabraham.html +[my father is caught by a riptide]: father.html +[memory]: ouroboros_memory.html +[another shipwreck]: shipwright.html +[ghost]: 100-lines.html +[stars above the mountains]: finding-the-lion.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81