All Its Charms by Keetje Kuipers

Author:Keetje Kuipers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
Published: 2019-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Anemoia

Not yet old enough to read, and already

my daughter’s learned nostalgia by example,

what to feel at a loon’s call or when passing

a blue door, how the sky just before nightfall

turns like a vulnerable animal showing

its belly. She misses the dog who died

before she was born, the town we barely

lived in. When she tries to give language

to everything she thinks as past—the Indians

and ice caps and the neighbor girl now

ten states away who used to thread flowers

through her baby-fine hair—her words

become the ropes that lower each to its grave.

I want to cut loose from her each wistful sigh

I hear escape her lips, lips that have never

spoken secrets like scars on the air or kissed

another’s mouth to bruising. But if she doesn’t

learn nostalgia now, how will I ever teach her

regret? I have to get her ready for the future.

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