Pass any ordinary sedimentary deposit
And likely you are looking at hundreds
Or thousands of layers that were deposited
Seasonally, annually, under roughly
The same conditions, within roughly
The same place. The place became
The sediments deposited and then
The deposits stopped and the place became
Remains. Today in Nelson, another June,
Another fine deposit, the search for parking,
The busker on the corner, the barber shop,
The Yellow Deli, more parking searches,
The children’s toy and game store,
The pharmacy, the RCMP officer pulling
Someone else over at an intersection for
Whatever. Little deposits of memory
On top of crushed deposits of memory,
Similar to a decade of deposits of memory
Silted into seams when not washed away.
The way it changes, the way the tiniest
Differences can’t be evaded, all the same.
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