Lost Ticket: Memories by Jasper Evans

Memories

single to lost-

no return, the floating jar

cultured on the aging shelf

dusty ticket coat rack sitting

drumming fingers wind the moment

off tempo, sagging shock

bear loses his watch, but where?

lucid seconds on the clock

malt ticket vorpal clot

bladderwrack jabberwock

these are the days like this, these days

he says, these days tears camp his nose

skilling breeze, turnstile decays

flowers at the plastic hole

the waiting bedroom populated

empty window flapping,

neighbour ocean creeping

iodine fix come under, stay

control a rotting sucker

memories removed by pots

dust motes lost in wind

sodium mites at muzzle cusp

rock garden, slate, tin

tile and rubble, bed sheet soaking salt

bear slips the house, the journey

lost ticket on express

to brine from malt

jars’ controlled decay ferment

fallen pop, slips away

solution forgotten, falling flat

the diffuse thrill of the carbonated moment

cracked before a place dissolved

just like intent, regret to forget

forget regret forget

FORGET REGRET FORGET

Words by Jasper Evans

Edited by Eleanor Rogers