Category Archives: Cognition

Angling

Posted on February 24, 2026 by sputterpub

I’m casting back to 43 years old,the age my youngest is, and as I lookaround for recollections lines might hold,I feel I need some substance for the hook.I may not find good memories to bookunless my research yields what I … Continue reading →

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Origin

Posted on February 16, 2026 by sputterpub

If I postponed a project’s originuntil I had the perfect starting phraseand outline too, I never would begin.Instead I start, and as the work displays,it triggers gears that mesh and move within –emotion lubricates, idea conveysattention to momentum’s certain speedand … Continue reading →

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Phantastic

Posted on February 12, 2026 by sputterpub

I’m zoning out of late, on couch and chair,adrift in dream for moments, out of bed,replaying voices from Intensive Care,acknowledging delirium insteadof dialogue that’s accurate and spare.I’m carting crazed affection in my head.It’s not unpleasant and it’s feeling apt.I like … Continue reading →

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Inability to Relax

Posted on January 24, 2026 by sputterpub

I sat beside her in the restaurant,engaging with my patience at a maxthrough maze of menu choosing what she’d want,though knowing she’d complain at the attacksof too much food or noise. The woman lacksmost hearing, and cognition’s inward-turned.I tried but … Continue reading →

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The New Recipe

Posted on January 16, 2026 by sputterpub

I used to think the barrier to proseat length was lack of patience for the plotproceeding at the pace it should. I choseshort forms instead, accepting what I’m not.But as I edge toward days when I’ll composewithout a detailed outline, … Continue reading →

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Answering (L’s Question)

Posted on January 7, 2026 by sputterpub

I’ve lost some friends, I said when I replied.(The question was who do I hang with now).Some moved away, retired, and residein states I seldom visit. Others bowto an infirmity and don’t abideactivity. The saddest have lost howto think or … Continue reading →

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Keys

Posted on January 2, 2026 by sputterpub

Attention to some inattention nowbecomes a treatment I prescribe today.The recent past implies I’m losing howto survey home before I go away.Appliance on, a bolt unthrown, conveythe message reinforced to some degreesthat though at large I’m managing okay,I have to … Continue reading →

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Losing It

Posted on December 31, 2025 by sputterpub

It doesn’t rise to OCD, to checkagain that tasks, on leaving home, are done.I never left an iron on, to wreckmy place, but every now and then I’ll runback to find power use or, what the heck,a door unlocked? So … Continue reading →

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Comment

Posted on December 19, 2025 by sputterpub

Your brain as a receiver could dispensewith several filters, now you’re fully grown.Perhaps the interventions make you tense,and though noetics aren’t nearly known,a subtle alteration makes some sense –a renovation deep within the bonemay modify your pathways and give pauseto … Continue reading →

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Separations

Posted on December 12, 2025 by sputterpub

Are we at heart our personalities?Do feelings need from me? Synapses reel…Considering dementia’s mysteries,I wonder what remains when neurons sealthe memory, or how some therapiessequester our emotions and appealto us to give them what we think they ask.Can I, bifurcated, … Continue reading →

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