Erin Klee

 

 

fragments

 

 

of an intended life
whispered to an absent lover

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter:  “Entrainment”

 

 

I’m lying on my back on the thick balcony rail, legs and arms draped out and down like laden orchard branches.

I’m thinking of your laughter and that pink rose and those red carnations and the profile of your face as we walked against grey sky.

 

I shift one arm to screen my eyes from the now-strong sun.  Pressed against my eyelids, I still feel this heat but also that breeze… aware of bright sky and unseen distant scars…  the infinite inlaid with fragments of time. 

I remember this sun and that wind and these birds and those cicadas before I should perceive their presence.

A disquieting sensation for a devout atheist:  Have I felt this before?

 

A perplexing totality:  What is substantial?  What is veneer?

Everything staggered is merging.