This Magazine, Volume 14, Number 4

Herewith, the latest selection from dusted-off published poetry and short fiction, circa 1970s vintage and beyond....

Past Patterns

In the hazy twilight
of a yawning future
one contemplates
the past
mines memories
for precious elements
of events
to prove that
something significant
did occur. we turn
these shadowy relics
of coddled treasures
.... carefully
to catch the gleam
of emotion
dimly recalled;
the recollection
poignant and somehow
magnifying whatever the eye
of the mind rests upon
giving it significance
beyond time's
expiration
as we expose
first this
..... then
another facet to the
light of need
proving once again
that patterns
illuminating
.... the past
colour the present.

c. 1980 Rita Rosenfeld
published in This Magazine, July-August 1980