Memories After Time

by CLS Sandoval

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nostalgia does to a memory
what time does to a photograph

the sharpness

the pain
the anxiety
not knowing

is all erased
or at least slightly clouded
by the slightly turned edges
tiny rips
tears along the sides

the fading gray sepia tone
technicolor of those rolls of film

cotton around the borders
of the way my mind plays those moments

soften what was once high definition

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CLS Sandoval, PhD (she/her) is a Pushcart-nominated writer and communication professor with accolades in film, academia, and creative writing who speaks, signs, acts, publishes, sings, performs, writes, paints, teaches, and rarely relaxes. She’s presented at communication conferences, served as a poetry and flash editor, published 15 academic articles, two academic books, three full-length literary collections, three chapbooks, and both flash and poetry pieces in literary journals, recently including Opiate Magazine, The Journal of Radical Wonder, and A Moon of One’s Own. She is raising her daughter, son, and dog with her husband in Walnut, CA.

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