Fragments Make the Whole

Fragments of paper are pulled out of the drawer,
torn envelopes, faded yellow note cards,
lined school paper, legal pad pages, each

with a few ragged lines of verse,
snippets of almost poems,
stillborn over a decade,

never quite completed,
yet never quite abandoned,
and at times, like tonight,

brought out and read,
each short line bringing to mind
memories, brief flashes,

like in a movie full of flashbacks
where all the little snapshots flash
to give a picture

of the now you were becoming
for all those years.

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The picture is of the ceiling in the lobby of the Bellagio, in Las Vegas. They are glass flowers. You can click on it to see a larger version.

Tom