Lost journeys

All too often I forget things, put a book down and forget where I’ve put it, put something in a safe place and can’t remember where the safe place is, or forget the way somewhere. My forgettery works overtime …

LOST JOURNEYS

what is it like to forget the way?                    
roads disappear into a blank horizon

an unknown face frowns from the mirror
whose voice calls across the room?

there’s no memory of a curved spoon
an absence of children in the family tree

picnics have no river-bank context
rain falls without meaning or placement

I am adrift on creased old maps
mist clings to hands and face

photo albums hold an unknown past
while my diary records lost appointments

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