Saturday, April 6, 2019

Memory Throws a Last-Minute Curveball




Memory Throws a Last-Minute Curveball

your name, the punchline,
why I'm standing in this room --
all veer out of reach

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2019



1 comment:

  1. Oh--that is a gut-punch of a little poem.

    Now reading it again, it seems to be a rueful string of little jokes of aging, but the first time I read it, it was all one piece, full of raw grief.

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