By Poet Charles Bryant, visit his profile at

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Memory Out Of Sight
Along the ambient memory of a forgotten shore
the dead sounds of broken waves still echo
from a distant, time-stilled beach
left over from an unremembered youth.
No concrete form can reinforce the sense
of desolation ensuing from those fluted, fallen
whisperings of falling waters never moving,
forever frozen as if gripped by ice;
while the dreamlike dissonances of their breaking
are always present, though unrelieved by sight.
I know the wind was sighing in my ears
when I, a boy, descended to the foreshore road
beneath a sun opaqued by heavy clouds
and lost my footsteps in the salt-bleached sand.
I left the memory of my thoughts upon that shore
and time's high-water-mark dissolved their imprint
and shed their essence along the tidal boundary
and wracked sea-garbage inflicted by a former moon.

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