Eight-line Poems

Memory

Memory

“Fingerprints on an abandoned handrail,” *
the fading trail of an accidental life,
those unremarkable moments stored
by a soul otherwise engaged, yet remembered
in high definition, sharp, clear but still
enigmatic, as though frozen instants recorded
by a camera swinging wildly on a strap,
yet now compelling to the aged mind.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 03.02.22
Prompt: Illustration of a fingerprint.
* Note: A quote from Bob Mortimer.