Kelley Stoltz

Memory Collector

Kelley Stoltz


The memory collector
The creak feeling
Takes you in 
And send you reeling
It's your being 
In the simplest song
It's the melody 
So strong
It won't let 
You forgot
What it is 
That you've done

Between the brain 
And the blackboard
Every lesson
Right or wrong 
You know that you're 
Still guessing
And that shine 
Hasn't been replaced
It'll hide in lines 
There on your face
They don't let 
You forget
Where it was 
That you came from

It the cool air 
Late afternoon
Sitting alone 
There on the floor 
Of my room
The fireplace crackles 
Down the hall
"Dinner's ready" 
I hear Mother call
I remember 
Your childhood hair
Flowing wild 
At the county fair
And how you'd ride 
On the Himalaya