Poem: My Mother's Memory

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Memories are fleeting
brief cracks of time
sometimes so clear 
other times so muddled 
she does not remember 
my face or my voice 
I live so far away
like a short story
in only one printed volume
until I am there in person 
and somehow suddenly 
it produces a spark 
of prior knowledge

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