Writing like this always kind of blows my mind. It's so simple - not a meaningless word is used and the idea expressed is so complex that to write it out in prose would takes pages. Love it.
This poem takes on the idea of memory - that you an event can happen and that for various reasons ("So the free may remain free", "so a life may be save"), in a way, two memories are formed. One that seems to tell the true truth and one that serves another purpose.
The memory that forms splits. Which version do you follow, do you believe? The poem says: "one stays in the past and dies / one past shapeshifts walks with you." So the memory that has the most use lives and 'walks with you'. Is the only truth. But since there are multiple truths, is the one that ends of being the one that 'walks with you', the true truth? 'What is truth' is such a rich question. I like this poem's take on it.
Favorite line: "so a life may be saved / the girl becomes an object / so the greatest devastation occurs / let go her fingers their slim cleave"
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