Hindsight

 

I lost my journal once, maybe in an airport

or on a train, back when I wrote my self, rejected

every other way. I had consulted fortune

 

tellers, written it down. I’d scribbled in tents

high on mountains, distant beaches . . . recorded courtships,

failures, theories of God — it all made no sense.

 

Decades passed. And then my journal came back, dissected,

sender unknown — each page annotated, densely

edited, everything made right and correct.

 

 

© Michael Fleming

Brattleboro, Vermont

May 2015

 

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