On the Other Side of Disappearing
by Elizabeth Farris
The wind’s died down since evening
And now upon this dimly lit form
We revive memories
And recast truths
In your stones and in my bones.
What kinds of forgetting are we encouraged to do?
And what is it we should have done?
There is an apology remaining
In your stones and in my bones.
Enormous spaces exist
That are hard to look away from.
My thoughts linger with the hopes I had the day you left,
As are the promises remaining
In your stones and in my bones.
And now upon this dimly lit form
We revive memories
And recast truths
In your stones and in my bones.
What kinds of forgetting are we encouraged to do?
And what is it we should have done?
There is an apology remaining
In your stones and in my bones.
Enormous spaces exist
That are hard to look away from.
My thoughts linger with the hopes I had the day you left,
As are the promises remaining
In your stones and in my bones.
Elizabeth Farris holds an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her work appears in Barstow and Grand, Wild Roof Journal, Poetry X Hunger, Rue Scribe, Flash Frontier, Turbine 15, Wild Greens Magazine, Tamarind Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. A dual US/NZ citizen, she makes her home in Fitchburg, Wisconsin.