Memorial Day Gifts

Memory, riddled in desire, is an animal sound

Half human/half beast

Yearning to be heard.

Grown from the wandering soul

Lifetime after lifetime,

It rages at what remains un-forgiven

Rolling in on tides off the dark sea.

Memory’s siren song is where my mother lives

Most happily with me,

In a childhood I cannot retrieve.

Glad for her pleasure

I accept surrender,

Forgiving what was lost,

To reconfigure mutant possibility.

Alchemy cherishes memory

To heal longing,

To infuse each moment

With ferocious desires to connect

The sublime symmetry of the past,

Unfolding secretly within,

To harness the great mystery.