Flash of recognition
Today the word Erasmus leapt
from the page I do not know
what I once knew but black letters
spoke out like an old friend
passed on a train in a foreign land
I struggling down the aisle
heavy with luggage
then a sweet hug
in a far place
So much has drifted off
it is good to pluck something
from busy synapses
almost remember
something that must
have been good
Carol Hamilton taught 2nd grade through graduate school in Connecticut, Indiana and Oklahoma, was a medical translator and storyteller. She was Poet Laureate of Oklahoma and has published and received various awards for 19 books and chapbooks of poetry, children’s novels, and legends. You can also find Carol in petrichor twenty-three.
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