THE MUSEUM ISSUE Melissa Tuckey   Time's Arrow after Hiroshi Sugimoto No one will remember the arsonist smoking a cigarette and laughing The child will remember letters of the alphabet rising from flames windows exploding, fire, a whistle, but who will listen to ash? * How does history survive? the language of God in translation & inside every mirrored locket a portrait of the ocean Melissa Tuckey is author of Rope as Witness (Pudding House, Chapbook). Her poems have been published in Beloit Poetry Journal, Hayden's Ferrey Review, Poet Lore, Verse Daily and anthologized in Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing. Tuckey has recieved writing fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council and DC Commision on Arts and Humanities. She's a graduate of the George Mason University MFA program and Co-Director of Split This Rock Poetry Festival.   Published in Volume 10, Number 1, Winter 2009.   Read more by this author: Melissa Tuckey: Wartime Issue Melissa Tuckey: Split This Rock Issue