Plea for Saved Memories
Dear Saint Anthony
Saint Francis de Sales
Our Lady of Perpetual Help:
let the little notebook
of earnest words
the cheerful sketches
of intrepid animals
visiting unthinkable actual places
the carefully curved letters
and the ones scratched in an angry rush
the endless synonyms
hand-spun for awesome
the good days and bad
sunrises lions waterfalls pufferfish sunsets
be found
and if it be not found
let all those days sights feelings smells hopes dreams
settle in deeply
to the heart-home that gathered them
and let him bring them out
when they are needed
for he worked so very hard
to note the magic as it was made
