The Sudden Memory

Dedicated to Charles Simic, in appreciation of his wonderful poem:

 

The Road in the Clouds

 

Your undergarments and mine,

Sent flying around the room

Like a storm of white feathers

Striking the window and ceiling.

 

Something like repressed laughter

Is in the air

As we lie in sweet content

Drifting off to sleep

With the treetops in purple light

 

And the sudden memory

Of riding a bicycle

Using no hands

Down a steep winding road

To the blue sea.

 

[from "Walking the Black Cat", copyright 1996 by Charles Simic]

 

 

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