A reflective poem

about the nature

of an offshore breeze…

Remembrances

(je me souviens)

Airs and airs, brisking through the afternoon,

fill my ears with ruffling sound,

and fully charge my mind with half-drawn shapes,

many half-thought fancies,

and many second memories

      of once-remembered moments in the afternoon.

September 18, 2015

You’ve listened to this kind of breeze at the seashore. It’s not strange that it never stops. These airs are reminders of the ways we’ve turned our heads, so many times, to face a new direction or an old reality. I stood on First Encounter Beach, in Eastham on the Cape, at high tide in the late afternoon. I wasn’t alone but I kept my thoughts to myself at the time. I’m not sure I was fully conscious of everything I was thinking. I do know that I remembered a couple things for the second time, and that was good.

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