i wonder
what happened
at the train station
coming or going
to cause someone
to leave
what once filled their suitcase
behind.
—
“the present changes the past.
looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
*kiran desai
*Kiran Desai is an Indian author whose novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. In January 2015, The Economic Times listed her as one of 20 “most influential” global Indian women.
happy things left behind after someone’s day at the beach on lake michigan
—
“there are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
-c.s.lewis
holland, michigan, usa – fall 2021
old and rusted
i wonder about the day
when the child
left the bike here one last time
never to enter that tiny house again. .
—
“what do we leave behind when cross each frontier?
each moment seems split in two:
melancholy for what was left behind
and the excitement of entering a new land.”
-che guevara
what’s left behind by the kinder after week one.
—
“if you focus on what you left behind,
you’ll never be able to see what lies ahead.”
-remi gaillard
I didn't have my glasses on.... 