Remembering

from the ancient recesses of a life
that folds like an accordion
unfolds like rows of paper snowflakes
full of holes, light and dark,
themes reverberate,
ignite the unfamiliar with déjà vu
to take into the ambiguities,
that punctuate a life sentence.

Carol Casey lives in Blyth, Ontario, Canada. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Prairie Journal, The Anti-Langourous Project, Please See Me, Front Porch Review, Cypress, Vita Brevis and others, including a number of anthologies, most recently, i am what becomes of broken branch and We Are One: Poems From the Pandemic.

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