| Tangle of wires, these threads of | life | |
| disconnects between phones with | histories | |
| conversations now lost in silence | in a drawer | |
| in a box of decisions, | of memories | |
| electrical elements, complex, | elementary | |
| useful without understanding, | currency | |
| with potential to make happen, | to make happy | |
| sad, lose, lose times, lose friends, | lives | |
| lost in a box of decisions, to keep, | rejoin | |
| find phones, find friends, find family, | or | |
| finally forget and forgive and forsake, | spread, | |
| on a carpet of decisions, coil, | lay out | |
| in a mortician’s pattern of cold | calm the | |
| inevitability, the undertaking, | tears | |
| of the accepting bereaved. Nothing | flowing | |
| in the untangling, connections draw | out | |
| together again, in the box, in the drawer, | in this | |
| burial of so many a departed | conversation. | |
2013 © Andie Davidson
- The initial ‘unbroken’ version of this: Discharged Memories
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