Tag Archive: Alzheimer’s


Apparently Not So

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It’s the way Pop started to go, she said,
small things, inconsequential; so I fret
for things I did today: poured the whole well
of ground coffee beans directly into the pot,
rather than measure the right amount
into the brew receptor, and reached for gel
instead of saline, to lubricate my lenses.

© Chagall 2015

I Once Had A Violin Bow

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The tears of poplars, amber
apathy is typical. This stage
a torched pine smell when rubbed
progressively dementia
millions of years old, trapped in fossil resins
turns eighty tomorrow.  Usually neurons will fire

© Chagall 2014