after you look long looking is longing memory. looking is memory. it's looking now in memory.
 

 i remember this place, this very log, this water that is all water, i know, i feel remembered.
 

you come to places together and they become memory.
you haunt each other in those places in memory.
and when you return to them together you remember.
in layers, new memories, memories ever new.
places layered with you. 
 
 

you try to think, thought thinks you,
what was i trying to think the last time,
when was the last time,
watching fishes swimming, wondering
what thoughts look like to them.