What remains?
The memories
The possessions
The clothing
Choices of a style
Representing character
Representing attitude
Representing rebellion
Representing adaptation
Representing character
A life into bags
Textiles of a life
Choices of a life
Stuffed into a bag
Today
What do we have left?
The memories!
A life into ashes
A life into bags
Memories
Memories remain, and that character also ... meaning character in its richest connotations. Over years together, two people begin to share each other's character, an integration that defies being bagged and dismissed.
ReplyDeleteThinking how it would feel to do what you've written about ... surviving takes strength ... (and poems!)
If Gary goes before me, I'll make a quilt of all those tee-shirts!
I've held the T-shirts back with the same intentions of making a quilt. But I have to stay home to do so ;)
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