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By Carly SachsAdded: Monday, June 30, 2014 / Used with permission.Where does memory go?
…………Our windows looking out on the bay,
my wet clothes hanging on the antlers
…………of a deer someone else killed,
but Isabelle remembers the trigger,
…………the blood—
The lobster boats, early morning,
…………the buoys marking their traps.
If only it was as easy to find
…………where the hurt sleeps, our secrets,
or our anchors, our cabin on the coast,
…………the mind, a landmine;
my friend’s brother who forced him down,
…………or my own version of the story.
The fog rolls in and behind it
…………the lobster men will come to retrieve
what has been trapped.
Carly Sachs is the author of the steam sequence and the editor of the anthology the why and later, a collection of poems about rape and assault. Her poems and stories have been published near and far and included in The Best American Poetry Series and read on NPR’s Selected Shorts. She is currently a yoga teacher and doctoral student in Rhetoric and Composition at Kent State University.