Katrina Kaye
the house wakes
an old man
with tired bones
clicking into place
an echo with
no consequence
I am losing my words
I know it now
a piece or two
gone
every morning
a memory that does
not wake with my body
tiny tragedy
tiny loss
a step at a time
a moment too long
and suddenly
it adds up
and
too fast
it ends
“Tiny Tragedy” is previously published in Madness Muse Press (2020).
Chasing Rabbits 
Actually, all the words are there, and the memories. Words not used often have fewer neuronic pathways, unless there is organic damage. Memories compete with each other, and with newer memories. I think our overwhelming information society, along with a surfeit of visual stimuli such as photos, movies, and TV take up a lot of space. Our brain thinks it is all important to our survival. Think about the comparisons with our electronic brains. They do have things in common, and visual media takes up far more of a computer’s capacity to store and upload. I think it applies to human brains too. We may have to evolve more capacity again just to keep up.
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