Cut Memories

Rex Wilder

I take my memories for the short

Term, like cut flowers to be

Enjoyed for three or four days,

While still fresh, while not

Too receded（后退，减弱）, and before they become

Brown at the edges, and the voices

Change, and the hair

Assumes the color of the hour,

And the building where

The memory took place is torn down.

I like my memories before

The story of their disappearance

Gets old, when you can

Still inhale them off your pillow.