1991

Time heals all wounds
the problem is
the problem is
that time
takes so much goddamn
time

It is not a miracle cure
if you define miracle
in terms of the sun stopping
in terms of Lazarus
in terms of your pain ending now
in terms of your pain ending now

Sometimes
Most times
you’re got to settle
for the
l o n g 
d r a w n
out
speed of a glacier
miracle

It is a miracle a glacier moves at all
It is a miracle that anything heals at all

ever.

memories sail
past us every day
like the places
we pass on the way
to work
or to the corner
store
they appear
in the middle of another thought
like a pressed flower
found
as you turn
the pages of a book

you remember the picking of the flower
the metaphor
becomes
the memory
itself