"Jukebox" by Keith Leonard

Keith Leonard is the author of the poetry collection Ramshackle Ode (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016). His poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in The Believer, New England Review, and Ploughshares. He lives in Columbus, Ohio.

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Jukebox


To have a mind as categorized as a cupboard of song,
to reach into a dark place and usher forth the exact tone
of your infant's yawn, to hear completely your gone mother's
bedtime song. And then to click the memory back into place.
​To even lift the same song twice.