Thursday, April 5, 2012

Retrograde

It's easier now to go back and edit, 
to change a timestamp the way 
you never could a postmark. 
Our promises for ourselves 
live fluidly, the past 
at the mercy of the present. 

It's easier to stack the deck here,
to claim this poem for yesterday as if
plans hadn't gone unrealized.
A goal forgotten, hours lost
blink out effortlessly;
an all-powerful order smooths the wrinkles.

It would be easier to take hours tomorrow
and assign them to today, as if
I'd been a proper weekday girl. 
Otherwise now I'd have to pretend
to be regretting
all our extra sunsoaked minutes.




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