B: Xxxxxxxxxiii: Memory And Memories Poem by Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

B: Xxxxxxxxxiii: Memory And Memories



A strong perfume that cannot but escape its flask,
because it penetrates glass,
is memory,
out of which a soul first comes.

Later, as its plural, memory revivifies a lost soul,
over-revivifies it,
until, giddy, it fixates on a failed love
until the spinning stops at the last,

when the air
is the same on this,
as on that,
side of the glass.

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a monist got an idea from 48 Le Flacon
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Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide
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