The Frayed Edge of Memory by James Croal Jackson

So complicated
the wiring
 
which makes
a memory.
 
I remember
believing wind
 
was bird wings
flapping over
 
head and branches
lined our palms
 
to lead us
where we need
 
to be. I am older
now and less
 
clear on how
I came to
 
view this world–
the roots
 
of my beliefs
the sky or
 
water?

About the Poet:

James Croal Jackson is a Filipino-American poet who works in film production. His latest chapbooks are A God You Believed In (Pinhole Poetry, 2023) and Count Seeds With Me (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, 2022). Recent poems are in Hello America, Little Patuxent Review, and Ballast Poetry Journal. He edits The Mantle Poetry from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.