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The Impermanence of Memory

Late: The square?holds its panting between
?the last bus and the first argument.

Nowhere / ‘online’ - @someone is ‘winning’..?
A face, a flag, emptiness trending; always.

We desired a just world -?rights, dignity, ‘progress’; doors?that open to merit.

Enlightenment still flashes warning
from the distant rocks - through darkling fog.?
The doors? Gone.

?it will not be alright.?
it is cold.

?the square waits: quiet, tense.?
you are here,?
so am I.

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Alison A Smith nee Howarth Date: 9/7/2026 9:03:00 PM A haunting, finely fractured poem: its disrupted punctuation and broken clauses enact the instability of memory, public language, and collective faith. The movement from the crowded, breath-held square to the spare final recognition—“you are here, / so am I”—is chillingly intimate, balancing social disillusionment with a small, stubborn human presence.
Alison A Smith nee Howarth Date: 9/7/2026 8:58:00 PM A haunting, finely fractured poem: its disrupted punctuation and broken clauses enact the instability of memory, public language, and collective faith. The movement from the crowded, breath-held square to the spare final recognition—“you are here, / so am I”—is chillingly intimate, balancing social disillusionment with a small, stubborn human presence.

Alison A Smith nee Howarth

Date: 9/7/2026 9:03:00 PM

A haunting, finely fractured poem: its disrupted punctuation and broken clauses enact the instability of memory, public language, and collective faith. The movement from the crowded, breath-held square to the spare final recognition—“you are here, / so am I”—is chillingly intimate, balancing social disillusionment with a small, stubborn human presence.

Alison A Smith nee Howarth

Date: 9/7/2026 8:58:00 PM

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