My Body Remembers Poem by Rani Turton

Oftentimes by dusk or daylight
Neonlight, candlelight, moonlight,
Dark night, Dark Knight, snowlight
My body remembers, whispers, soft breath, fingertips, but also scalpel and steel
By a window in Paris with the past far by, but watching the road beneath
My body remembers silhouettes unforgotten
My body remembers each memory
Each searing tear, some love, not much t'endormes
As countries whirled by; Sometimes my heart would pause and listen
In rustling leaves my name called by one long gone by.

Copyright: Rani Turton