Repainting Memory, by Emile Hemmen, 2002

Emile Hemmen

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SubjectsPoetry

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Memory must be repainted
and all its lost fragments
will have to be glued together again.

Erased traces,
yellowed photographs,
toys
sleeping at the bottom of a trunk,
love letters
thrown into the purgatory
of our silences.

Fossilized or dismantled
objects,
already absent,
rooted to the spot, superfluous.

—(Excerpted from Repainting Memory, Emile Hemmen. Igneus Press (2002))