Remembrance

• Remembrance

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Remembrance

Our arms remember everything
So the world fills with holes
Shaped the way that people were
In their last known repose

And our toes remember everything
So the sand down to the shore
Parts itself just wide enough
For our secrets to be heard

The breeze will see you from the road
The birds will eye you from the pier
And the waves will speak in velvet tongues
That you have never known
And the sea will take it from here

As if to try her buoyancy
The ocean fills with holes
And the holes all filled with ocean are
Still keeping her afloat

Forgetting and remembrance
They are not so opposed
A memory stays, a memory weighs
As empty as it does full

The mist will trace your braced form
And the shells will hold you to their ears
And the waves will find the measure of your quickened poet heart
And the sea will take it from here

Our arms remember everything
So the world fills with holes
Shaped the way that people were
In their last known repose

And the breeze will fill your folded clothes
Your shoes at rest to hold them there
But this time I will arrive in time to cast this memory free
And for the sea to take it from here
For the sea to take it from here

© Brendan Bonsack
November 2015

1. That Line in the Sea
2. Your Child has the Heart of a Poet
3. Maralinga Blue
4. Life Insurance
5. Future First Mutual Life Insurance
6. Fallout Flowers
7. Closing Time
8. Grace
9. Will You Take me Down to the River?
10. Intimacy and the Tiny Drum
11. Old Lovers
12. A Letter from my Grandchildren
13. Remembrance

The Sea Will Take it From Here
Released June 2016