River

River

memory is a river that does not flow in one direction
it circles and pauses and sometimes questions
its own authenticity.

I cannot tell; the night my mother’s body was carried to mortuary
I was lying in her last warmth on her bed
listening to my father's recount
of their past; his painful voice portrayed a broken woman
I was not familiar at all - hours ago
I kissed my mother's left eye unclosed like that of a doe
and was wondering
what was the last she saw when walking alone into the dark
and if death would be the beginning for her to laugh again

what is real? I don’t know
when one was sitting there reminiscing, one in bed listening, and one in mortuary freezer box,
I knew all of us had been in different universes, and all the time,
though we migrated as one single family

what the river says, I am not sure that is what I can say.
sometimes I get drowned, other times I fly by like a bird.

所有跟帖： 

• 黑白的河流配一首有关记忆的诗。 -燕然山- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/04/2022 postreply 03:13:29

• 谢谢燕版。 -影云- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/04/2022 postreply 08:35:33

• 抱抱影云。 -晓月落花- ♀ (137 bytes) () 12/04/2022 postreply 06:20:39

• 抱抱晓月。我想回国看看。我喜欢它的生机与那些正在飞速消逝的关于过去的痕迹。 -影云- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/04/2022 postreply 08:32:21

• 这首诗歌是受William Stanford 的一首诗歌的影响，一种探索吧。 -影云- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/04/2022 postreply 08:35:05

• 你的文字（英汉双语）都很有特色的。 -晓月落花- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/04/2022 postreply 09:02:32

• 你俩怎么认识的？：） -燕然山- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/04/2022 postreply 09:08:10

• 我早就看上她了。不过到了茶轩才交上头的：） -晓月落花- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/04/2022 postreply 09:12:08

• 很开心与晓月成为朋友。你给我一种我很喜欢的温暖的感觉。 -影云- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/04/2022 postreply 11:16:12

• 你也同样给我温暖的感觉：） -晓月落花- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/04/2022 postreply 14:16:10