“The Air of June 1980”

The Air of June 1980
October 28, 2014
Dr. Mark S. Latkovic

As I read your poem today

I could smell the air of June at 17

With its sweet scent of possibility & freedom

Though my memory has been want to lie

It’s never vague in its untruthfulness

Nor does it lack for color & sensation

So I’m sure that the scent of that breeze

Smelled the way it did those many years ago

But I may need to ask you where we were

And what we were doing

Aging has its way of editing our memories

Some don’t make the final cut