The Edge of Memory

(for SMA)

by T.P. Wilkinson / September 4th, 2022

Where memory rides

In my questionable sleep
conversation and conflict
wearily ply the deep.
To starboard dreams swim
To port fish then pushed aside
beneath the hull, her and him
burst the surface foam
amidships, where memory rides.;

T.P. Wilkinson, Dr. rer. pol. writes, teaches History and English, directs theatre and coaches cricket between the cradles of Heine and Saramago. He is author of Unbecoming American: A War Memoir and also Church Clothes, Land, Mission and the End of Apartheid in South Africa. Read other articles by T.P..

This article was posted on Sunday, September 4th, 2022 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.