memory loss

Finding Humor in Caregiving: A Poetic Reflection

A poem and reflections on caretaking a mother with dementia and still finding humor.
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Bothersome

A poem and reflection on memory loss.
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And I Also Forget

Today my mom forgot that I had just visited. That floored me.
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“Sorry to Bother You,” Mom Said.

My mom asked me yesterday if she was my mom.
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of a sort

I spend a lot of time getting started on sorting things
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narcissi

A poem about daffodils and dementia
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cue cards

Just because it is a comedy doesn’t mean it isn’t also tragic.
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what’s apt

What’s caught eventually will be released
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the haunted man

another poem in my series on memory loss
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silver dollar words

Another poem for my Memory Loss series. The photo is from Cape May, New Jersey. I really love shadows and lines in photos lately, and skewed perspective. I think back to processing photos in a darkroom in the eighties. They’ve made it almost too easy for us these days.
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