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NORTHEAST OHIO SPOTLIGHT

MEMORY

Poetry by Mary Weems
You don’t know what
memory is until you lose some
small diamonds
falling.
 
One moment you’re fully awake,
brain doused in hot dark blue dye
eyes open as wounds
watch shut faces
of white coats surround you, sheets
on an unmade bed.
 
Nobody tells you
when you can’t see out of one eye
and your speech is more Alaga
syrup on a raw biscuit
than a voice
 
that when you finally go to sleep
in intensive care
 
some un-god
in new suede shoes
will come
a thief
snatch pieces
you’ve lived.
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Mary Weems

Dr. Mary Weems is a poet, playwright, imagination-intellect theorist, social/cultural foundations scholar, and former Poet Laureate of Cleveland Heights. Dr. Weems is the author of thirteen books including Blackeyed: Plays and Monologues and Writings of Healing and Resistance: Empathy and the Imagination-Intellect, and five chapbooks, most notably white (Wick Chapbook) and Tampon Saw Class (Pavement Saw Press). Two of her books are full collections of poetry: An Unmistakable Shade of Red and the Obama Chronicles (Bottom Dog Press) and For(e)closure (Main Street Rag Press), both finalists for Ohioana Book awards. Weems was the recipient of the 2015 Cleveland Arts Prize Emerging Artist Award in Literature. Dr. Weems may be reached at maryeweems.org. 

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