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Memories And Grey

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On thin rain afternoons
Time changes its way
As fingers comb through leaves
Of memory decay
Against wet sky-droplet backgrounds
Brushed with inky black trees,
Slow flip-book drawings
Move in time-lapse delay.
Measuring the old, yellow and faded
Against a sparkling green array,
Thoughts which stay a while,
Pressed tight in heavy pages of books,
Come free again, blowing, and sailing,
Like little brown sea-rays,
Through the long, staggered trunks
And admonishing rooks,
Over tall-grass spider-woven fields, to play
In the cool rain breezes
Swimming down silver stony brooks,
Floating and swirling until sunken
Then hiding from day
In old crayfish caves
Where needle-like minnows
Dart, and dance and flash silver,
Trying to catch tiny ripples of rainwater prey,
And sleeping there for a time,
Memories forgotten, hidden safely away.

copyright J. Shidler, 2011-04-03
Some days time changes its way...
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uturn190's avatar
i like it, random imagery