This, That You Never Wrote Down

An extremely bright afternoon
Sprawled, life inside it, in the sun.

This was several days ago.
An old friend, hallucinated

Out of long-sunken memories,
Seemed to be sitting in the sun

Offering, from the other side
Of the table, some good advice,

But you were writing it down
You forgot what it was, and now

You sense that not writing it down
Amounted to the same advice.