When I remember
Poet Sara Mark explores memory as a moment of transformation, revelation and renewal - matter stirred by spirit.
When I remember
When I remember,
I imagine I'm a cloud chamber.
Christ falling right through me unflinching, in muon dust-trails
hurtling amazed from eternities.
When I remember
I give Jahweh back his Asherah,
He misses Her. She yearns Him
like upland groves thirst storm-driven rains.
When I remember
I imagine being called forth like Lazarus.
Crystallising and coagulating
out of pupate oblivion,
emerging sudden Eve
alive from planetary clay.
When I remember
I imagine I'm winnowed by a vast breath
circling a moonlit threshing floor.
She ignites desert bushes and blows-open locked doors;
exhaling unquenchable Pentecosts.
Sara Mark, 2025
Above: Beta radiation in a cloud chamber.
Below: Threshing Floor, Greece.
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