The House of Forgetting
It was never simple.
The boxes of photographs
stashed in a breathless crawlspace.
Silver tarnished by neglect
that no one wants.
Files, drawers of files
crumbling under their own weight.
Cookbooks without spines
leaning into notebooks of medical manuals.
Unasked questions
hang like broken bones
rubbing against me as I enter
the house of forgetting.
It is time to put away
the ambiguity, the contradictions.
Time to decide
to clean house.
December winds cleanse
the New England tableau.
As I leave
the door slams behind me.
Welcome to the BFA Workshop in Poetry at ACA, 2015 This guided workshop will be both generative and critique-based; we’ll be looking at past work, learning methods of revision, and writing new poems from prompts and exercises. Poets should bring seventeen copies (each) of three poems they would like the group to read and critique. A blog will be set up to help us to prepare in advance, to aid us in communicating between our meetings, and to foster our community after we leave the retreat.
I love this title.
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