Maps by John Freeman

Author:John Freeman [Freeman, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2017-10-28T00:00:00+00:00

Ides

And so

begins the rain,

stereo needle

lowered to

waiting disc,

volume raised

until a song

is heard.

Saudade

means nostalgia, I’m told, but also

nostalgia for what never was. Isn’t it

the same thing? At a café

in Rio flies wreathe my glass.

How you would have loved this: the waiter

sweating his knit shirt dark. Children

loping, in tiny suits or long shorts, dragging

toys and towels to the beach. We talk,

or I talk, and imagine your answer, the heat clouding our view.

Here, again, grief fashioned in its cruelest translation:

my imagined you is all I have left of you.

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