Legacy Lost

[addy]

Lovely. It's a sparse piece, but it means itself to be sparse.

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In some places
…maybe
—where innocence has yet
to leak away— I found the use of punctuations rather random in this part. Also, not sure "leak away" is an image that particularly ties up with the rest of your poem
one might still intrude
on an American
apple pie day,
but
I have not held a moment
like that
in my hands
for many faded years.
My memories
of those small town times
once
sharp as a blade of Should this be "sharp as blades"?
St. Augustine*
have all been
whitewashed away.

©2010-2012 –Erthona

*St. Augustine: "a low, mat-forming grass, Stenotaphrum secundatum, of the southern U.S. and tropical America, that is cultivated as a lawn grass."