in between customer calls you spent
the whole day looking at places from above
typing remembered addresses into google earth
some cultivating nostalgia
anxiety
& sadness
we can't write plots
with memories that are built from neurons and flashbulbs
but we can build roads
to archive with satellites
& we can build memories
with technology
inside storage centers
& we can view these
/w our technology as large white blocks
some addresses were odd historical curiosities
like where the largest nuclear bomb was detonated
big enough that everyone alive then
is still living with radiation in their marrow
now a small crater
or
the former block occupied by twin towers
now empty squares and tufts of trees
we can create memories from destruction
that we call monuments
predicated on our predilection to want to remember
we can look at spaces from above
of childhood homes
old workspaces
a park we held hands
monuments
and memories
spirals of cul-de-sacs
blocks of farm land
desert communities
and the changing ice caps
our changing landscape
echoing reconstruction of memory
