Building Cairns

PSC / 2012

Building Cairns

No one’s left

who knows the whole.

What remains are but bits & pieces –

stories retold, old Polaroids,

 mementos, and family photos 

arranged, assembled like a jigsaw

including only those morsels

we’ve chosen to recall –

a recollection of smiling souvenirs,

a portrait purged of all the painful parts

an entire lifetime condensed

into a scrapbook

of keepsakes.

PSC / 2018