3:31 AM: An exchange

Memory: Part 5

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An exchange: Memory

I am excited to publish Part 5 of An exchange, the side of Poetry & Process where artists explore a topic through an exchange of their art.

This month’s exchange is on Memory, a series of six pieces written over the past six months, poems from Brian Funke, author of Poetry & Process, and essays from Ann Collins, author of Microseasons. The six newsletters will be published in pairs over three weeks, each touching the topic of Memory , and each built from an aspect from the prior piece.

I hope you enjoy this collaborative effort on Memory.

Memory: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6

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From Fiddlehead: Part 4…

Quiet your mind and open it wider. Roots drilling down, earth-bound, sharing Sky—like gemels, like twins— Trees in our slow-motion dance. Underground, we will meet at a Vanishing place—some night in a dream Where the ghost flowers sleep.

Ann Collins

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3:31 AM

Brian Funke

Photo by Brian Lundquist

Lost again,

space below your spine
rises to hold you,
to lift you
as only empty space will,
you are there
and there is nowhere,
it comes to you,
fever and flushed
and flows through
as fire, all
aflame, cool as it burns,
you blow as if ash
must comprehend every
corner of a cloud, every
corner in a gust of wind	
from the soil as it breathes,
you breathe and words
fall, heavy heavy
on the tongue, heavy heavy
on the open plain with
far horizon all around,
around and around,
dizzy you fall
into opening eyes,

you see what you are,
you remember,
you are changed. 

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A subtitle for this poem could be A description of the liminal space between reality and dreaming…

What strikes you, speaks to you, or stirs in you after reading this piece? We hope to see you in the chat!

Part 6 will be published tomorrow. May you see what is real…

Brian

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