Hindsight
I lost my journal once, maybe in an airport
or on a train, back when I wrote my self, rejected
every other way. I had consulted fortune
tellers, written it down. I’d scribbled in tents
high on mountains, distant beaches . . . recorded courtships,
failures, theories of God — it all made no sense.
Decades passed. And then my journal came back, dissected,
sender unknown — each page annotated, densely
edited, everything made right and correct.
© Michael Fleming
Brattleboro, Vermont
May 2015
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