Two Years Later
Buy Issue for $25 at JHUP- Two Years Later
Ed is driving you home on a night where it is stillwarm enough for moths to congregate aroundevery street lamp in Brighton. a white light fillsthe inside of his hatchback & recedes to revealyou & i huddled together in the backseat.
we are laughing, my left arm outstretched,tilted at an angle, camera phone in hand.recently i’ve come to adore the selfie,its ability to capture moments—even whenthey are bound to be dark & blurry—in our palms.
there are pictures i never thought to takebut still remember: our faces on saturday nightsafter too much wine, sunday morningsfull of jazz & pancakes, our apartment
in my car’s rearview, the unpaved seacoast roadstwo ice cream sandwiches on a blanketat hampton beach, hours spent infatuatedwith the tide’s slow retreat. what i meanto say is: you are an album that containsso many favorite photos. what i meanto say is: i don’t regret anything. [End Page 583]
MCKENDY FILS-AIMÉ, a Haitian American, is a Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop Fellow. This poet is a co-organizer of Slam Free or Die, a popular poetry reading. He has published in The Journal, Word Riot, Atticus Review, Stirring, and other journals. His first poetry collection, The Other Side of Hunger, is forthcoming from Small Doggies Press. He lives in New Hampshire.
