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Tasha Graff 
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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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