i have remembered to remember

[ what is it ]
i have remembered to remember [ ? ]

how can i recall & recollect
all that has been blown away [
private thoughts &
public words &
yesterdays’ silences ]

blown ever farther away
into time’s cobwebbed corners
receding residual dust
trickling into nothingness
history [ there & then ] has no past
destiny no future
all that remains [
yawning abysses

&

cavernous depressions ]
all my squinting mind’s eye sees
rapidly is fading away is dissipating
previous thoughts & words & silences
ebbing ebbing ebbing

discovering [ here & now ] however
in these fractured fragments
echoes [ faraway so close ] of the
messages i have forgotten to forget

because i know you read