Cut Memories

Rex Wilder

I take my memories for the short 

 Term, like cut flowers to be 

 Enjoyed for three or four days, 

 While still fresh, while not 

 Too receded（后退，减弱）, and before they become 

 Brown at the edges, and the voices 

 Change, and the hair 

 Assumes the color of the hour, 

 And the building where 

 The memory took place is torn down. 

 I like my memories before 

 The story of their disappearance 

 Gets old, when you can 

 Still inhale them off your pillow.