A Tourist in Time - Ed Coletti

[Lawrence Robinson]

A Tourist in Time
				
Desk drawer catacomb’s
weekly calendars, 
ominous litter from
thanksgivings past, 
years built upon
planning dross futures, 

A raven articulates 
its cawing from Poe
as well as Kurt Vonnegut’s 
own “So it goes,” and it will 
to where I am not yet clear
except if to fire 
considered too well:

Those devouring flames
consuming the past,
calendars dated with
all my years gone
which, but for the fire,
number only five books, 

the lost ones amassed 
over half of a century: 
handwritten pedigrees, 
poems and journals,
passports and memories merely mislaid
as will be my nearing departure—

A tourist in time, learning forgiveness 
and how to forget only this and to chant 
with Edgar A. Poe foretelling the prophecy 
so articulately broadcast 
		by his candle-gleamed raven.

	- Ed Coletti
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