Tag: memories

Memories of Metal Shop 

Carl Setzer

​Sitting

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Sunday Morning, June 3, 2018

Carl Setzer

​Now I’m awake 

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Memories Unbidden 

Carl Setzer
Edvard Munch's
Edvard Munch’s “Melancholy”

Memories come
Unbidden

Ghosts of my youth
Painful moments

Choices I’ve made
But not understood

There’s wisdom there
Not just misery

Forgive the boy
That I was

And see inside
My heart

Now I understand
My internalized mind

Echoes of fears and failures
This early spring morn