If Memory Serves Me Well Poem by Suzette Richards

If Memory Serves Me Well

Collated papers filed and the bills paid
as the kettle whistled invitingly.
My son's laughter drifting in through the window—
I have forgotten to close the billowing drapes.
A sempiteral tableau.

An ephemeral scene crowds in:
The loud curtains tucking at my memory;
my son's voice trapped in distress.
The kettle whimpered as it boiled dry—
old papers flutter in my periphery …

If Memory Serves Me Well
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
A Specular Fugue poem - a mirror image, where the lines of the first stanza is in reverse order in the second, but distorted by a fugue state. Each line contains a tether word from the corresponding lines. In basic free verse in two stanzas.
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