Jigsaw puzzles,
Mammoth pumpkins,
and barbarous mechanizations torturing
squished tomato stuff.
Fishing
and crickets
and old Bibles

Sermons and verses
and your far-off stories
of childhood.
Stuck in an oak tree over the graveyard.

Laughing and talking at the same time.
Your heart
in the hands of doctors,
in the hands of God.

Stamps. Airplanes.

I do not remember you
exactly.
I remember
what you've done
and your slow voice

showing me.