Ex Post Facto

How often does the commonplace

become ethereal

after it has managed

an absence

so unaccounted for

that even the most

observant

are caught unaware. 

These moments

which we begin to cherish

in memory

like C.J. Jung's

notion 

of the collective unconscious

are as deceiving as

the last warm Fall day.

For upon the next unsuspecting

gaze

they are gone.

K. Carter