The HFR blog will be taking a hiatus until after the new year. In the meantime, enjoy the poem below from issue #47.
From us to you: hopes for a wonderful holiday season and a new year filled with health, happiness and creativity!
As I Rewind
by Anna Journey
The hands of the golden oak clock spin
the wrong way on the wall of my childhood
house as I rewind the Christmas video. It’s over
twenty years ago. My young mother’s head
—sped up—jerks on the screen. Brunette
in a blue velour day robe. Rewound
her coffee mug fills a dark inch
each time she sips. The Maine Coon uncurls
from our peach couch, leaps to the window
in reverse. My grandfather’s scarred thumb
nudges into view—only once—and I pause
that second. Black shadow: he’s behind
the camera. He can’t stop
focusing the lens on me. I sit at the green wire
feet of the plastic tree. I smooth shut
the wrapping paper, re-secret the objects, seal
all the ripped seams. The stripes of winter
sun—rewound—run eastward,
and the smoke from my grandfather’s cigar
ciphers back into leaves.
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