National Poetry Month’s Poem-A-Day 30-Day Challenge: Day 15
REAR-VIEW MIRROR
She thumbs slowly through the stiff pages
of the photograph album. Faded images
wave from far-behind. Tucked inside, she finds
a yellowing letter, dried leaves, a swatch of leather.
Smells and sounds and memories climb
out of murky time and grip her with a kind of dread.
Life seemed so much better back when all her life still lay ahead.