"To Make an Involuntary Memory Arise" (by Alexandra Zelman-Doring)

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July 08, 2008

"To Make an Involuntary Memory Arise" (by Alexandra Zelman-Doring)

To Make an Involuntary Memory Arise

Stand behind a master weaver.
A wind at the trees.
Watch him work.
Harder in winter.
As when a man from a hot country
Watches the wind work the branches
In a cold country,
And finds the storm warm.

-– Alexandra Zelman-Doring

Posted by The Best American Poetry on July 08, 2008 at 06:34 AM in Poems | Permalink

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Radio

I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark

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