Sunday, August 3, 2008

memory and forgetfulness



i’m amused, amazed by your solitary heart
from which my memory and forgetfulness
flow into mine as a sacred gift and a trust
i need to employ in all my wakefulness


i’m baffled, bemused by those contrary elements
operating within me simultaneously to embrace and reject
you the prime source for my holding tight and the negate
of your negating my negations of you, your rudiments


i’m certain, confident in your inclination for plural
ways of dealing with color and creed, both in multiple
and i will find special favor among yours, not unequal
among the other, affirming that mine is never too little


© henry victor     18.05.2003




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