FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: DEAD DAYS Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words dead and/or day, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on November 15th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Dead Days will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, November 16th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Friday, November 15, 2024

Ellyn Maybe

LOST TO TIME


Facebook is the obituary section of a newspaper I didn’t realize I subscribed too. 

Sometimes I’m getting the news years after they’re gone.

Memories on the tip of the tongue.

Decades ago, lives in other cities, countries.

Sometimes immediately but still in the past like a celluloid scrim marquee with capital letters and small breath.

Remembering some moment in time before clocks drifted their sands across eternity. 

Condolences is the language filling the air with a residue of music and dictionaries full of pictures and time stopping glimpses into the cities left behind.

The empty theater seats with a ghost light beaming.

The violin with a fermata note hanging in the air.


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