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Grex Writing Item 3: someone else's memories
Entered by katie on Thu Sep 12 02:05:48 UTC 1991:

       my walls are hung with pictures old and used

       each one beautiful and different.

       I collect them at garage sales, at antique fairs.

       some are pages out of books long disintegrated,

       some anonymous family relics disinherited.

       my walls are decorated with someone else's memories,

       dusty and two-dimensional, in rickety frames.

       my own history is in the custody of a cardboard box
       
       in the attic

       photographs filed, forgotten.  souvenirs of

       births and marriages and deaths.

       scrapbooks filled with the fancies of my mother's mother:

       bible quotes, calling cards, and every item about president

       eisenhower that ever appeared in the saginaw news.

       on a sunday every year or so I spend an evening in the

       attic, getting splinters.

2 responses total.

#1 of 2 by morgayn on Tue Dec 6 15:20:18 1994:

The piece you have entered strikes me, for it portrays what some of us seem to
have difficulty putting into words sometimes; the meaning and value of
memories.

#2 of 2 by nistel on Fri Nov 8 16:51:16 1996:

you seem to have that clearness of diction.  And to the last detail.
Yes, It is a good piece of work and my appreciation goes out to you.
Chao..

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