Still+Memory



-starts off as dreaming of a memory -uses the bed as transportation -goes to her old home -"locked in place" same places it has always been -still in the moment -light-goodness -her father in the hall -"not dead" he is dead now but not in the memory -worked the graveyard shift -sensory details in the dream -Mother in the kitchen--also alive in the dream -She is making coffee-a habit that happened every day in their house -opening flowers--imagery, happiness -town wakes up--people, old friends -She lives in an old house--maybe a memory before school?? -12-year-old sister -More imagery--poor family--no heat, old house -Goes back to parents still being alive--not yet cremated -Uses "born" as a clever way to say they are dead now--oxymoron -10-year-old hand--she is a small girl in her dream -She starts to write--becomes habit--she now writes for a living