Poem by R.M. Dolin, January 4, 2025
Forgetting will forever be
my failed false flag,
just as very attempt to
unlove you falters
at the gate with the wild
recklessness of a mustang
fearful of their first step along
an unchosen destiny.
On good days
I only think of you when
Wind touches my face
with tender reminders,
or Sun warms a memory
too precious to escape.
I try moving on
but the impossible
is not possible
with a heart
steadfastly in stasis
waiting for a sign
that pushes me forward,
or brings me back to you.
From the R.M. Dolin novel, “An Unsustainable Life.” After choosing to remain at his uncle Darwin’s wilderness ranch to earn his inheritance, Issac feels isolated and alone away from the gregarious life he left in Chicago. He’s unfamiliar with these feelings, which causes him to rethink his decision to end things with Gabriellia.
While I wrote this poem to capture Issac’s unsettled feelings for Gabriellia, in the end, the emotions and sediments may not be his as I’m uncertain his character would miss Gabriellia on this level. Instead, while I finished “The Dangling Conversation,” months ago, it seems Kyle is not yet done writing poems because this poem meshes with Kyle’s inability to move on from Nadia. In that sense, I guess this is an epilogue poem.
