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209 Nostalgia poems
07/24/2025 00:00h
We camped every summer until they were thirteen
after that they didn't want to
i understood
we still have the tent
it's in the garage
i keep meaning to use it again
12/19/2024 00:00h
I miss the version of my life
where i didn't know
how things would turn out
not because it was better
because the not-knowing
had a kind of lightness to it
11/06/2024 00:00h
Winter slows everything
makes you stay inside
makes you sit with yourself
sometimes that's what you needed
and didn't know it
10/30/2024 00:00h
I found letters she wrote me
before we were married
sixty years ago
the handwriting is hers
but the voice is someone young
nervous and hopeful
someone i knew
someone i loved for sixty years
08/16/2024 00:00h
Where i'm from
everyone knows your parents
and your parents' parents
and the story that came before you
i left and came back
it fits differently now
but it still fits
07/15/2024 00:00h
Saturday morning cartoons
and cereal in front of the tv
my mother pretending to be mad
and actually not caring at all
those saturday mornings were the whole world
i didn't know they would end
nobody told me
03/08/2024 00:00h
Summer mornings when i was a kid
we'd be outside by eight
and back inside at dark
my kids are different
they want air conditioning and wifi
i don't blame them
but i miss something i can't explain
12/04/2023 00:00h
We sold the house in '09
the kids were grown
it made sense to sell it
i drove past it last summer
someone painted the shutters blue
i didn't like it
but i didn't have a say in it
09/25/2023 00:00h
I drove through the old neighborhood
the house is a different color
someone put up a fence
where there wasn't one
everything fits except me
i drove out slow