"OH, YES, I CAN REMEMBER YOU"

BY MARGO JODYNE DILLS

Oh, yes, I can remember you.

You have turned on the faucet of warm memory,

lodged deep and long.

It all comes bubbling out now. Rusty and not quite clear

saturating my mind

with foggy happenings,

damp vows

entangled

that could never be unwound somehow.

The room steams;

gazing in the mirror, my reflection blurred

from the precipitation on the glass and in my eyes.

I wish you would leave so I could remember you

with the scent of green timber before it’s aged.

Margo Jodyne Dills is an active member of Hugo House and Epic Write in Seattle. Her friends call her Jodi. She lives in Shoreline, Washington with her chihuahua rescue, Penny Lane, and manages an 80-unit apartment building. In her spare time, she writes, like many, because she must, learning so much about so many things in the process.