📸: August 2019 #poetry #TheAngelOfHistory #bookcover — I was sitting on a bench outside of #Phippsconservatory

RE: #poetry #TheAngelOfHistory

“The past is not where you left it, Svetko.
It is a ruined city, spackled with grief,
The house, still yellow stucco with pear trees.
Empty swallow nests hang in the eaves
woven with bits of collar and sleeve.
There is a diary open to the words

*cannot remain here.*”

#CarolynForché