Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

...because some of it is pretty and some of it is not.

Monday, August 31, 2026

Yesterday and Today

There was a tattered woman, too.


She wore shawls with so many colors

they were like a season in themselves,

or a remembrance of curious times and old money.

 

Each day, she strode to the post office,

and glided echoless down the marbled walls.

 

Perhaps she didn't believe in time,

or distrusted randomness and dreams.

 

Each day she posted a scented letter to herself

and picked up the letter from the day previous,

 

smelling,

oh, engulfed in the roseate sweetness

and certainty of yesterday.


—Mitchell Hegman

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