This Feeling Will Pass: Poem by Lisa Vega
Art Direction, Photograph and Edit by: Catie Menke. Model: Tishana Richards.
Poem Written by: Lisa Vega
Model: Tishana Richards
Creative Direction by: Catie Menke
Your thirties go by in threes, you were told, and you can’t much argue,
counting on your fingers the number of days since Tuesday, searching for misplaced keys.
But perhaps the calculation isn’t so exact, or perhaps it’s just that
time goes by,
and the multiples don’t matter. Like memories taking the liquid quality
of dreams--in the hazy hour between days when all is eerie, the world upside-down--each birthday now blends into the next, but you’ve coped. You’ve accepted.
From now on you can measure by moments and wake with the sun and sleep when
you’re tired.
Let Facebook keep your important dates.
Lose whole years in a blink, staring
into the glass wondering where these lines and oblong lumps of flesh come from. Going back
to play-doh days, you press the pads of your thumbs to smooth over bumps and seams--
new; unfamiliar; irrevocably yours.
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