Put Aside

You fall out of an old paperback,
of a sudden, a recollection
gazing back into my eyes.

An image of a past love,
a love not lost, but only misplaced,
flutters now
in faded Kodachrome.

I wonder if you hide
in any more
of my yet unread books,
or perhaps someone else
yet another, put aside memory,
of this brief affair
we all must live through.

Jean, yes you are from Tasmania.
Jean or Joan.

Again, I wonder, if you ever
came across a misplaced picture
of a younger me?

A face in a book put aside decades ago -
a photo falling out of a travel guide perhaps,
an edition long out of print.

Was I Eric or Eddy?

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