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**The featured poet chose the following prompt: Use the phrase, “Write from the perspective of someone long dead.”

“The Threshold of Memory”

Pieces of me persist as features on their faces.
I last in some small part as the blood in their veins,
But no longer as a story on their lips.

These creatures, who bear my aspect,
Urge me toward oblivion.
Into the darkest crevices of time
Where things that are forgotten remain.

As a twinkle in the stars,
I watched them spend their years.
But they’re strangers now,
And my name no longer echoes among them.

I’d very much like to remember what it was.

J.R. Patton is a writer and poet with an affinity for the spooky. You can learn more about this poet and connect with them below!
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