Sunday, January 17, 2010

Tissue

The indulgence of old photo albums. Each page separated from the next by a sheet of translucent paper, so as to spare the photographs the indignity of rubbing against each other, so as to give each trapped face its privacy.

There are days when I wish my memories were so distinguished, so well-preserved. So I could tell the difference between impression and image, dream and ghost.

7 comments:

Shazia said...

Beautiful thought. I wrote something about memories a few years back. May be you will like to read it.

http://sagittalsection.blogspot.com/2007/08/fortunately-or-unfortunately.html

frissko said...

Loved the analogy...

Anonymous said...

interesting article. I would love to follow you on twitter. By the way, did you guys learn that some chinese hacker had hacked twitter yesterday again.

FamilyOfAWESOMENESS!!!!!!!!!!!!¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ said...

Lovely.

Anonymous said...

loved las vegas? test the all reborn [url=http://www.casinolasvegass.com]casino[/url] las vegas at www.casinolasvegass.com with beyond 75 new gratuitous [url=http://www.casinolasvegass.com]online casino[/url] games like slots, roulette, baccarat, craps and more and overcome existent change with our $400 cost-free bonus.

km said...

Falstaff, your readers want you to go to Vegas. Give up the fear and loathing, man.

dya said...

agree,agree.Time blurs the line between real and imagined real.
PS:- You write so evocatively when you write of sadness, loneliness and longing.