Sandy in Defined Space

Jesse Doiron

July 9, 2023

on the bronze sculpture by Richard McDermott on the campus of the University of Houston

There she stays in an angled memory,

a place that cannot be again in time

yet will not pass away from mind.

First kiss was in the corner in the dark

and neither one of us could see

from there how we would draw the lines

that could not meet again, each way 

must end, each touch of skin, each place,

each time still deeper in to mark forever 

where she stays – a space she has defined.

Photo Credit 

https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2019/08/uh-public-art-collection-celebrates-50-years

Sandy in Defined Space, Richard McDermott Miller, 1972

Jesse Doiron spent 13 years overseas in countries where he often felt as if he were a “thing” that had human qualities but couldn’t communicate them. He teaches college in Texas, now, to people a third his age. He still feels, often, as if he is a “thing” that has human qualities but can’t communicate them.