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