Scars
Scars
are lost information, faded signs
in desert sun.
Beyond memory:
pale triangle on a knee,
white line through an eyebrow,
puckered crater on a shin.
Pain outlived.
Circumstances archived.
We learn to live.
Clouds, 2018
Scars
are lost information, faded signs
in desert sun.
Beyond memory:
pale triangle on a knee,
white line through an eyebrow,
puckered crater on a shin.
Pain outlived.
Circumstances archived.
We learn to live.
Clouds, 2018