Preserving Memory

by Scott W.B. Grey

She relishes life
cranberry-orange,
its straw and rasp
black and blue
huckle and buffalo,
but the berry of her life with me
has been the sweetest
jam of all
and when it clatters on the bottom
and we've scraped out all we can
we'll spread it thin
on a slice of land
and taste it all
again.

-- SWBG
©2001 Scott W.B. Grey

Scott W. B. Grey is a contract software engineer living in a Portland, Oregon suburb with his wife and two-year-old daughter. He is too young to be a grandfather, despite what everyone at the grocery store says. He is currently working on a memoir of his mother, another about how he and his wife overcame infertility, two novels, and a few short stories, but only when his daughter is napping. His last published poem appeared in the anthology A box full of night mirrors in the late seventies.