Evaporating Context

POETRY

9/11/2023

Breeze brushing leaves

Descending along my hair

I heard if you walk through a door you’re more likely to

dis-remember…

Vocabulary tumbling

Tripping over paper

Sorry I keep stumbling

How come I sit blossoming forgetting each pollening?

I didn’t even walk through the store.

White hole weaving

Spewing, forcibly and rapidly, spitting a…

Vorticose!

Mmm, not quite right.

Very vast vacuous volatile victory,

Vortex stealing mental notes I meant to start saying

Caving!

A dent in the bank I kept perfectly color-coded,

organized for the sphere of me,

but somehow the transmission has been spotty lately…

Am I the one lost in the vacuum?

Actively partaking, unconsciously

Probably meant to say subconsciously

No, unconsciously?

Comatose, gesundheit!

I’ll sit right here til my thoughts catch up to me…

Evaporating context, I must have walked through a million doors