Tasha Graff
Dementia is a noun
who am I are you your mother why can’t we go home
a blue chord is a biscuit is a cup of tea through a straw
how to walk how to swallow why is it so quiet loud
someone is stealing glasses is stealing heat is it cold in here
noun before adjective before verb after muddled preposition
(no punctuation) no memory of today but childhood oh
why don’t you take me home married I never was
children I never had but babies oh those babies
I am a nanny I am a girl why am I here why are you
why are you you who are you why are we here
what are these wrinkles are these jeans are these genes
who am I are you your mother why can’t we go home
Tasha Graff lives, writes and teaches on the coast of Maine. Her chapbook Similarities is available from Finishing Line Press. Her poetry has appeared in such places as From the Fishouse, Epigraph Magazine, Word Riot and English Journal.
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who am I are you your mother why can’t we go home
a blue chord is a biscuit is a cup of tea through a straw
how to walk how to swallow why is it so quiet loud
someone is stealing glasses is stealing heat is it cold in here
noun before adjective before verb after muddled preposition
(no punctuation) no memory of today but childhood oh
why don’t you take me home married I never was
children I never had but babies oh those babies
I am a nanny I am a girl why am I here why are you
why are you you who are you why are we here
what are these wrinkles are these jeans are these genes
who am I are you your mother why can’t we go home
Tasha Graff lives, writes and teaches on the coast of Maine. Her chapbook Similarities is available from Finishing Line Press. Her poetry has appeared in such places as From the Fishouse, Epigraph Magazine, Word Riot and English Journal.
Return to November 2015 Edition