In Living Memory, and: Someday Give a Day

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In Living Memory, and: Someday Give a Day Florence Fogelin (bio) In Living Memory I'm trying to remember youamong smiling photographs,trying to remember verbsbut left with nouns,snapshots of memory. I'm trying to remember the daywe agreed had been somehow perfect,spent walking a country roadwhile the windshield was repaired,and we tried—we even had a guide to wildflowers—to identify goldenrod.Who knew there were so many kinds?So much to talk about?Who but you would understandour appointment with a summer day?And share the reference to Santayana? Someday Give a Day Someday give a day,go back and sit on the dockin September, off season,stepping into a diorama [End Page 42] where the wind has stopped workingand the light has lit the air and lakealike. Your breath will seem an intrusion. The glassy stillness will be beyond reflection.This is where the heart goesto accept the settled look of thingsand regrets the fishthat breaks the surface. [End Page 43] Florence Fogelin Florence Fogelin's Once It Stops (Deerbrook Editions), was a finalist in Fore-word Press's IndieFab Poetry Book of the Year 2016 competition. Her poems have been featured on websites by Poetry Daily and Women's Voices for Change; in journals including the Florida Review and Poet Lore; and in anthologies including Birchsong: Poetry Centered in Vermont and Roads Taken: Contemporary Vermont Poetry. Fogelin currently lives in Hanover, New Hampshire. Copyright © 2018 University of Nebraska Press