Arlene Corwin writes

Just One More Anomaly*

Memory, how is it working?

Reconstructing what it will,

No matter how one wills it.

Using tricks or keeping still, 

It goes downhill sulking, lurking,

Modifying all the while.

Date, event - assumed, imagined;

Recipe for roasted chicken, how and what the vitamin,

Where one laid the just used pen;

Truths about what might have been:

One is not amused or gladdened!

One reads histamine boosts memory.

Where to start: ear, nose or eye?

The husband tells a story, 

But the story and the history refashion

Into joke or smoke, or expectation.

An honest man, he reconstructs time’s long bygone.

What and is there a solution?

How to boost the falsifying, garbled brain, 

Train away the stigma and enigma?

Food: The marvel is the good it does, in spite

Of junk consumed both day and night,

Those lovely cells of memory; 

Losing neurons constantly.

Interests, hobbies: 

Training. learning, instrument…

Any bent, life but experiment;

Each callisthenic ‘heaven sent’.

A poem one way to speak,

Renewing bits new and archaic;

One in which a syllable will stick,

Inspired to get a kick out of the rhythmic lyric 

Born in life.

 

*Anomaly: oddity, peculiarity, abnormality, irregularity, inconsistency, incongruity, deviation, aberration, quirk, freak, exception, departure, divergence, variation; rarity, eccentricity.