Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Where is the past located? by Dorothy Herbert


Where Is The Past Located?
            On an old calendar?
            In my mind?
            In the collective mind of friends and family?
            In the great void before I was born?
            It has no one location, but oozes in and out of our memories.
            It has no one location 
            but floats in and out of the back of our minds 
            wherever those  are located.
            Some neurons seem to have captured it,
            but too often they fade away before we can establish it.
            The past floats like a leaf on a pond or stream.