by Ann Carson

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THE RISKS OF REMEMBRANCE, new poems by Ann Elizabeth Carson “In Ann’s poetry images become a language that grips the reader directly. We come to know by word through image. As in Plato’s cave, we get glimpses of light among the shadows.” Jane Burns, Toronto painter/printmaker

Memory

The sun is warm. My skin
heats
as the breeze lifts my hair
to and fro, pulling
in quick tugs. Subsides,

picks me up,
remembering
what I thought I had forgotten
of the teasing urgent
playfulness
of bodies in the sun.

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