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Nostalgia's really only had about two centuries to carry weight. That's a tiny timeframe when compared to every other emotion that mankind has experienced. Before then, it only emerged through personal  Oddities of memory: this blue barn, that old fence, some years-dead horse with a white spot over one eye; the world at large never changed though: always fields and pie-fruit trees and quaint villages where news meant anecdotes shouted o'er
Clay-tile rooftops far and away; with no grandfathers to reminisce about when such things were built from hay and twigs. The first generation to really have their whole lives displaced by modernity's long-overdue stirrings --  The first to see cast-iron plows be put out to pasture or hold a blanket so immaculately-seamed that all signs of human undertaking were nearly invisible -- how could they explain the impending sense of  Loss: powerful and unable to be shared or understood in a sufficient way until more time had passed than they had left to live? Must they have then carried this feeling silently and alone to the end of their days?
Adam Crawford is a writer of poems and short stories. His work has been published by InkBabies Lit Mag, Silent Sparks Press, and the Pomegranate London. He lives in Simi Valley, California.
Lovely poem. Thank you.