Tea bags still soaking
in chipped porcelain,
pecking at cracks,
and caressing stains
that linger in molars.
Finely ground specs,
those murky lovers
swim in slow circles,
synchronized spirals
that sing like sirens.
Eyes follow tenderly,
glazed with steam
and melting sugars,
still sipping away
at sunken lullabies.
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Jamie Wilkinson
23 year old writer/poet from Montreal, Canada.
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B. A. Durham’s False Memories blends dream and reality in a seamless mix. As his father, afflicted by Alzheimer’s, fades away, the narrator is haunted by a dream that may be a memory, returning to him insistently. The piece is full of wonderful detail (the father touching his lip where once there was a mustache, “but now he is clean-shaven—he has been for years” — and moving in revealing the complexities of a family’s life. A worthy winner which shows the power of dreams to influence us.
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