a white shirt........................The accusations running through my mind
soft fur...........................as I stacked the vegetables in color-coded arrangements
it doesn't seem so long ago......................bore a tenuous relationship to reality
the sound of water .........or perhaps it would be more accurate to say
rain.............that my carefully constructed narrative of our recent past
where the current was slow .....................had stealthily overlooked some pertinent facts.
white pillows....The woman to my left was a photographer, and she began to talk.
brown grass on the hills...I nodded and kept on working with the vegetables.
a flowered dress.............. a glass of beer................. sleep............................... background noise............ low flying planes............. the daily in and out flow............... the smell of green grass.... hot sun......................... a red front door................ cold cereal........................ framing unrepressed responses.................... a white shirt....................... making love ...................... the children laughing.......... blue jeans......................... potato soup...................... his body............... the whitecapped mountains.............................. footprints.......................... unwashed windows........... a dark corner.................... the pine trees overhead...... walking............................. riding................................ the horizon........................