Two-Way Memory Effect

Remember
the shape of heat.
Measure presence—
the slightest
bend in lash
& quick-struck spine,
the pressure of caress,
the pupil gulping wide.

Time no longer
a period
but pleasure—
pleasure a handless
clock the cooling alloy
begs for sleep—
sleep a sweet
new shape.

2013

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