Memory

Memory

By Monique Avard

A found poem from Understanding Psychology 8^th Edition by Robert S. Feldman pg 219-221

You are trivial

And winning the game.

Comes down to one question,

You rack your brain.

Fundamental processes come into play,

Unable to recall,

Failure to retain.

A momentary flash of lightening,

A twig snapping,

The sting of a pinprick,

Echoic –

Less than a second.

Sensory, sensory, sensory.

Presentation, pattern, progressively,

This decline

Could not be recalled at all –

Less than a second.

A snapshot

Destroyed –

And replaced with a new one.