Visiting Day

Yesterdays
thin out
in crumbling light
of blue veined years

bone-lean survivors
cocoon
twiddling
their thoughts
marooned in lapses

speech is sidetracked
by spillover words
and people plots

On visiting day
we laugh together
at scattered perceptions

hug
loose – wired
memories

wheres and whens
rebound
for brief hiatus . . . .

– Adele Kearns Thomas

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