If Your Mouth Is On It

The past is history

The past is running water

The past is a fallen boom or main

The past is killers on horseback

The past is your mother’s lily of the valley

The past is ten dollar pot and strawberry papers

The past is a stranger in your bathroom

The past is a list forgotten or anything forgotten

The past is a century of gentle pets

The past is rolling thunder

A crow walking up the street

A blue spot on your face

The entrance to a school

The past is a hound at your heels

The past is and always should be

A lure cast to still waters

The motion of slippery trolley

The past is something new

The past is hippies in the granary

The past is urban, suburban and primitive

The past is wet paper

Used foil

An invention of the priests

The past is someone’s lost and lovely item

The past never comes without cost

The past is an open orange

The past is the simplest meaning in anything white

A vacation photograph

The past is indecision in different languages

The past is never over no matter how old it becomes

The past is necessary to engage the soul upon the birth of the new sun