The Daily Poem

THE BEGINNING PLACE

If I could map the memory of my skin

And draw my fine conclusions on its pores,

I'm sure I'd find a place I could begin

To life a little off the limit-shores,

to rise a fraction into better sync

Invisibily with those who will not go

Back down the traveled floods they used to brink

As if they could control the swirling flow.

There must be some topography of thought

Expressing to the surface from the deep,

That hints of what may be and what may not,

That points like truth down narrow crags of leap.

If I could map the memory of my skin,

I'm sure I'd find a place I could begin.

D. Edgar Lamp

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Sonnetelle

Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii

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