yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day, and so the following is for this day and any day we remember something larger than ourselves that still involves our responsibility in happiness or sadness to enact




day of remembrance



yesterday was for remembrance

each day is for remembrance

and recall

together

with poppies

or monuments of angles

the ceremonies we create

over what has happened

so we might remember

and not

as Santayana says

doom ourselves

to repetition

of the dire

and destructive



take it slowly on these days

don’t rush to something else

the prophet margin

will remain

in the margins

a call of justice

that is heard

might mediate

with all the other worldly matters

all our loves

the good things

the distracting things

that sometimes we must order

like new things

especially through

our days of remembrance



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