nostalgia – Thistle Thoughts

Poem — “Open”

Remember winter, Madonna’s
Immaculate Collection album,
Megaman III, a false sense of
innocent security

There’s no better time than a lockdown to rediscover your love for an old cartoon you watched as a child.

Glacier blue walls
and the autumn
scent of spiced apples…
means I’ve woken
up in Michigan.

…voice the scraping metal
sound of teeth
on a fork,…

I used unraveled
tapes as ribbons
for the gift box
I put my heart in…