Cryptomnesia

                                  chewed grave]-----------------------------my favorite jeans
                                                                                            I still keep, ripped
an old man-----------------------[detritus                                            by a bloody knee
words like concrete dust
slinks back                            a stagnant puddle]----------------------remind me
                                                                                           of the four boys
                                                                                           who jumped naked
                                 a dead june beetle                           from Springfield bridge
Ψ’s tears----------------------[over turned                                            June 3rd, 1994
wouldn’t fall, like
they were oil                           bottle caps with rusted teeth

                                  a string of cellophane]------------------only one
                                                                                           fished out
two faces]------------------------a pen cap                                           his jaw bone
piled together                                                                                  lost with the rest
in the exhausted world           

                                  two coins, one unknown]--------------and a silent moment
                                  one a penny                                         for this lost life
                                                                                              another for the next
                                                                                              soon the whole world
                                                                                              will be muted
















                                  the final part:                                      
                                  insides of a wind up watch                
                                  each gear locked by age


Michael Fisher