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Part 1

yesterday i ran into my sister's former lover. he was sitting in the corner of a small coffee shop on King Street and asked me,

"did you used to live in ____?"

i recognized the Kentucky in his voice and answered "yes."

photograph of Ryan Adams with coffee

a short conversation followed

i did not tell him i

once wrote a poem for him.

Part 2

this afternoon i went to a small storage shed on the north end of the county. inside were approximately 4000 comic books and my dead grandmother's belongings.

photograph by Stephanie Schneider

i remembered

were not there.

some of the things

there

were not remembered.

Part 3

it is not letting go, nor the thought of letting go. it is the inability to reconstruct a memory that might explain the things i saw; it is the inability to imagine a memory that might make sense of the things i did not.

photograph of a photograph by Patricio Reig

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artifact

or

memory

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