a new chapter unfolds
or are we not all
walking stories ?
disappearing seconds like
scintillating snowflakes
as they brush the ground
the same, but different
life penned
streaming through
the ghostly past
that shimmers silently
through the present
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steadily looking on into the future
days and chapters
page past monotonously
not until later
when we've forgotten the beginning
returning to reread
to reimagine what went before
attempting to change
what we cannot
in our minds
the past can be shifted, slanted
snowflakes melted
so long ago
words on torn pages
fading as memories do
flipping back
the picture is different
now composed of the good and inevitably
what we've tried to forget
old times bound in sentimental ribbon
that we cannot anymore?
untie
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Oxford Magazine hosts Spring Street Reading
By Erin Glynn | February 11, 2020The rain drizzling outside the windows harmonizes with the first few notes of “Piano Man” a student plunks out on the old piano at the front of the room. As another student draws the words “Spring Street Reading '' in bubble letters on a large whiteboard, students and English professors trickle in slowly, helping themselves to the coffee, lemonade and cookies laid out on the back table and settle in to hear their fellow students’ stories.
