FRANKENSTEIN

Re-membering:
every moment -
a salvific whole
a shattering event;

considering the text
of fracture lines;

the steady punctuation
of a stitch.

Behold the creature -
not what was
but is

a clamorous reach
beyond attainable.

HISTORY

History - all that piecemeal business -
making whole out of fragments - making
Eden through the way we hold a thing -

it never was like that.

Broken - always - edges sharp as words -
the wound of departures - so much -
unfinished. Nostalgia - an unconvincing balm.