BJZ Poems and Musings

As I get more experience in this 7th decade of life, I reflect more on memory and memories. The comfort, the scars, the beauty and the fallibility of what we recall.

This poem reflects on that. And the photo above – Dana and Brian Zink, now married 41 years, from our honeymoon at Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts, October 1984. Yes, we were stylin’ the 80’s!

Memory

reaching across a deep pond
of years
the surface ruffled, mottled
by wind;
that time
that moment
no longer clear
as if it could have been
as if there is truth
in when

Brian J. Zink
19 August 2025

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