Unlike Nabokov Memories to me Do not speak Their sounds rather Appear as words Conceptual imagery Land tides Beach grains My minds' eye See more Than my minds' ear In spite of the moment's love For music But the tune that doth play Ne'er can I say When a note hits And where the piano flits As hummingbirds fly I see their little noses dive While the whir of their wings Does not even silently sing