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Reflection Overture

from Forward, In Harmony by Write Colour

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REFLECTION OVERTURE is a spoken-word piece on my last personal relationship. As the poem progresses, I reminisce about many different facets of the union and attempt to justify holding on to those memories for the sake of giving them a place to live. At the end, I am writing on a bank of the Opalescent River in the Adirondack Mountains, wondering if I should let go and flow onward.

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Original rap/poetry by Larry Montague. Copyright © 2012 Larry Montague. Permission required for reproduction.

"reflection overture"

lower me down to yesterday
there was a moment when sneaking out of bed got easier
i used to sleep with an arm under and back around her
toward the end we faced where we headed—
in different directions
i’d abandon my post unnoticed when the beckoning sun of a new day shined through the gated window
i’d grab sara’s leash and she’d pop her head up from under the covers (laugh)
what a friend. she never cared where i was going, she just knew she wanted to go there too
as far as love—that was a story we never finished
i don’t know what i miss now
i must have missed it somewhere along that walk north
looking deep down off the edge of today, the memories are soft
it’s just a long fall to get to them
i could veer from it
but what good is a light if it doesn’t dance spontaneously?
or moths don’t fly into it and disintegrate?
i cool my face in the stream of consciousness
the moss on the banks carved by ferocious flood waters is as soft as the love we once knew
and watches things come and go as i do now
and saves all it has become from washing away
maybe it should send it off around the bend

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from Forward, In Harmony, released April 18, 2012
Produced by N. Montague

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