Peter Rostovsky © 2025
by A. Molotkov
Continuity
Our mindprints in time, electrons lost in orbit. Say, Don’t forget. I will remember as flowers do. Please keep me that way, collapsed into essence. What essence? Please let this moment take hold of eternity as silence holds my hand with your cold fingers and flowers wave their petals in their own dream. Please track me back to my origin to confirm. What origin? I say, Forget me, but you float into non-existence, an astronaut lost in orbit, defying memory and still remembering.
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A. Molotkov (AMolotkov.com) is an immigrant writer and the author of the novel A Bag Full of Stones and four poetry collections. His novel A Slight Curve is forthcoming in October 2025; his memoir A Broken Russia Inside Me will be out in 2026. He co-edits The Inflectionist Review.