Photo by Dave Bledsoe, FreeVerse Photography
Remembering in Third Person
Look at what we have
established:
It is possible to have
a conversation with
a stranger.
The cats under the bed
The tiny tick of carbonation
We don’t imagine the
scene:
We inhabit it.
Closing lids against the sun
That shade of red
What makes
a journal:
a list.
The multicolored boards
The needy dog
The blue-and-white
check:
We’ve lost the car:
what has been
taken.
The peeling paint
The glitter glue
in her hair
What makes it better.
The girl launching
the waves
The water falling on
the water
If you love error
so love zero.
The dirty sill
The violet door
The pink cake
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Stephanie Anderson is the author of In the Key of Those Who Can No Longer Organize Their Environments (Horse Less Press, August 2013) and four chapbooks, including the forthcoming Sentence, Signal, Stain (Greying Ghost Press). She lives in Chicago and edits the micropress Projective Industries.