Packed into conference ballroom like sardines please don’t sit beside me
S p r a w l materials twist and e x p a n d b o d y m a s s like over-inflated balloon animal to take up more s p a c e
Monotone
Speaker
Drones
Scientific
Latin
Blather
Tag itchiness driving me batty must tear it out stiff legs aching tingling switching positions yet again
Miniature gnome banging rubber mallet staccato on my spine
Buzz
Buzz
Mur
No space to rotate lap to write
Screens at diagonals; speaker in between
Where to turn my head? Speaker motioning presentation slide changing caught in between. Missing both and hand is Cramping
Snack break
No snack
At least caffeine
New session must find good seat close to speaker but not in middle slides on sides again
Brain Gym. Yes! Cross Crawl Cross Crawl. Energy flowing to my head
Arms legs feet hands all alive and awake again thank you kind teacher
Where are the notes?
Why isn’t he following the notes?
Jumping around
Topic to topic
No preview
Going too fast
Stick to the notes! Stick to the notes! Stick to the notes! Stick to the notes! Stick to the notes! Stick to the notes!
Fifteen minute r e p r i e v e
Bliss is a stroll to Capitol Hill breeze blows lusty and light green skirts of maples
Gusty spring songs sway Sycamores
Glowing brides of brilliant white azalea bathe in May sun rays
Medians scream STOP. So I do. Grasping nature’s outstretched hand, I look listen smell taste feel breathe
No longer part of conference group but citizen of larger
Association weaving between stately trees scampering squirrels
Church bells toll
Breath time over
Unnatural perfumes doused generously strangle
Pervasive static
Internal tuner on the fritz
Only 10:15 am
Las mariposas del alma
My ears must deceive me
Butterflies of the soul
Neuroscientists spouting brain poetry?
Neurons synapses firing now; Light increases ammunition
Sweet Mnemosyne births muses to encode brain music in my cells
Light fire light fire light fire light fire light fire light fire light fire light fire light fire
4:40 Saturday
Afternoon
Final session
Teacher teaching no
thing
Asking obvious questions
Trying to hold on
To thread Un r av e l in g
D r i f t i n g
Let
Go
