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    This poem reflects on trying to remember the face of the author's departed father, but finding the image fading with time. The author desperately claws to hold on to the memory of their father's smile, but it escapes their mental grasp and steadily fades despite their efforts, leaving the author terrified of losing the memory to the advance of time.

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    This poem reflects on trying to remember the face of the author's departed father, but finding the image fading with time. The author desperately claws to hold on to the memory of their father's smile, but it escapes their mental grasp and steadily fades despite their efforts, leaving the author terrified of losing the memory to the advance of time.

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    Past and Present: Audrey Lu

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    This poem reflects on trying to remember the face of the author's departed father, but finding the image fading with time. The author desperately claws to hold on to the memory of their father's smile, but it escapes their mental grasp and steadily fades despite their efforts, leaving the author terrified of losing the memory to the advance of time.

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    Past and Present Audrey Lu

    48
    Garret 2020

    1953

    my departed father,
    your face ripples like adam’s ale
    a smile i thought was moored
    now escapes my mental recesses
    i claw and grasp in desperation
    sill your image steady fades
    terrified by my own mind
    ensnared in the advance of time

    Jet Patterson

    49

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