Place After Place

Place After Place

Memory depends at least partially on technology
and surroundings For example the phone

How very many memories of conversations
in yellow kitchens and close enough to walls
The finger’s familiar map to those
we reached for often

Memories that contain the props we needed
the table, the receiver, the cord

And those memories
where the conversation sews itself
into the land

Place after place For you a series
of dunk tanks A new enclosure
Look around you This is where
you live now

The smallest shrapnel shapes you
Pollen or mosquitos or a stone you kick
while walking