Stephen M. Dickey
You always thought
time would be enough
in the days remaining,
so you always thought,
when you would stand again
in a familiar spot, and recover
your runaway life in ways
you always thought.
But time gives you the slip,
as does the familiar spot,
to spite old memory,
as if you forgot
in the meantime what
you always thought.
Bio
Stephen M. Dickey has recently published poetry in Rat's Ass Review, Asses of Parnassus, The Lyric, The Rotary Dial, Quarterday Review, and Indefinite Space, and a a short story in Word Riot. He has published numerous translations of Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian fiction and poetry including Mea Selimović's Death and the Dervish and Miljenko Jergović's The Walnut Mansion.