Memory and remembrance are different. Memory is the ability to record information about things and recall them later. Remembrance is the act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; a recollection. Bergson calls it “pure perception,” where knowledge of a thing takes place within the thing it represents. Matter is images, perception is attached to the real, and the image of a material thing becomes a representation.

You are now a representation,

a material thing that has since crossed over.

The image that I keep,

that now represents,

is the image of your body

attached to mine.

A moment of multiplicity,

where divisions occur in fits

and your organs are aligned with mine.

We were alive together.

We shared a time of being-aliveness,

conjoined like little snakes on dissenting paths.