FORGETTING TO REMEMBER
My mind Is a landscape of layered history But my stratigraphy is clumsily understood Bioturbation Concentrated in the fine-grained upper parts Is where I remember I am how I interpret what happens to me Alluvial deposits Found in the lower parts Is where I forget Because my mind is involved in a process Of erosion and decay My body Restores forgotten memories And is my home that forges meaning It tells stories of who I am Narratives Waiting to be shared Waiting to be remembered An existence created out of a need to belong