I do remember pieces
Fragments
Snapshots
Trailers- backwards, though,
Instead of Coming Soon!
It's This is what you missed!

Even the repeating dreams
That play like Behind the Music
On VH1, over and over and over;
Even these are memory fragments
Clips of scenes
Moments.

Picking up the package
In the morning
From the One-Hour Photo,
The film you found
And don't remember taking,
Never know what images you'll see
From a vacation or visit forgotten.

Sometimes clear and focused,
Sometimes yellowed
And cracked
Like my Kindergarten photos,
(Yes, I know, that makes me old.)

I'll lay them out like cards,
Or a puzzle,
Try to figure out what it all means
What they stand for
What I did there
In my dreams.

I need a new camera.

Copyright © 2000 Steven J. D. Bean