Originally posted by our friend Jan Yourist: http://connectere.wordpress.com/2013/12/26/disappearing/
“Disappearing”
At the Field Museum,
in the Colombian World’s Fair exhibit,
a sign speaks of the disappearance of the carrier pigeon.
in the Colombian World’s Fair exhibit,
a sign speaks of the disappearance of the carrier pigeon.
Yesterday I sat in a dry sauna and wondered,
if I sat here long enough,
with all my juices running out,
would I disappear?
Would I simply become vapor?
At dinner a few days ago, I saw Gregory's Alzheimers
insidiously colonizing his core.
No longer knowing what a fork is
or the function for kinds of his clothing
or even the meaning of words,
he is disappearing.
While his shape is here, his smell and his sound,
he is being swallowed up,
consumed,
erased.
His person is flying away,
dissolving,
evanescing,
slowly dispersing itself into the bone and sinew of others' memories,
leaving all of us,
clutching for each other.
insidiously colonizing his core.
No longer knowing what a fork is
or the function for kinds of his clothing
or even the meaning of words,
he is disappearing.
While his shape is here, his smell and his sound,
he is being swallowed up,
consumed,
erased.
His person is flying away,
dissolving,
evanescing,
slowly dispersing itself into the bone and sinew of others' memories,
leaving all of us,
clutching for each other.
"Disappearing" by Jan Yourist © 2013
Hmmm.... Carrier pigeons bring messages... sometimes we can figure them out. Sometimes the code is too difficult to decipher. That connects to why his person is flying away...
ReplyDeleteThanks, I see that now.
Delete...thanks for posting...even if it has been trimmed
ReplyDeleteSorry I took poetic license, now corrected:-)
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