There Are Memories

Painting by Joe Maktima

there are memories

there are memories
that dazzle
in their
transparency, their
detailed
elegance.

there are
memories
that carve
each
gesture
into fierce blooms.

the more we cling
to these frozen
sculpted things,
the more we find
them abandoning
shape, losing
meaning
right between
our frost-
nipped hands
.

Yi Ching Lin

Posted over on her site Yi's Bits