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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Time Before

Flipping through glossy pages protectors of memories 
long forgotten, still cherished in the fond light of recognition
touching the past 
glowing in sepia
faded black and white
places and times 
before words intervened
when teachers were each other
toys schooled us in puzzling, playing and working
wispy faces and names 
decades of ancestry posed on a summer’s day
focused on time-stamping a moment.

“What was our life like? I almost don’t remember now. Though I remember it
the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.”
 ~ Richard Ford, The Sportswriter

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