{"id":79,"date":"2013-07-25T21:19:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T21:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithchandlerpoet.com\/?page_id=79"},"modified":"2020-07-13T08:19:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T08:19:58","slug":"temporary-nominal-aphasia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/keithchandlerpoet.com\/?page_id=79","title":{"rendered":"Temporary Nominal Aphasia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div><strong>Temporary Nominal Aphasia<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"poem\">is what they call it\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 you know that thing<br \/>where your mind sticks, can\u2019t think<br \/>of the actor in that film What\u2019s-its-Name.<br \/>An hour later, apropos of nothing &#8211;<br \/>you\u2019re pulling radishes \u2013 \u201cAl Pacino<br \/>in \u2018Donnie Brasco\u2019\u201d &#8211; out it pops.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"poem\">It\u2019s natural the doctors tell us:<br \/>part of the body slowing up<br \/>like thinning hair, thickening sight,<br \/>getting your children\u2019s names mixed up.<br \/>Between the question and the buzzer falls<br \/>the silence, synapse firing off too late.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"poem\">The wife and I both have it.<br \/>Sometimes we enact this conversation<br \/>hands flapping at each other\u2019s gaps<br \/>like a Cloze test or game of shuttlecock:<br \/>\u201cYou remember that place we used to&#8230;\u201d<br \/>\u201cYes.\u00a0 And where we&#8230;\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019ll get worse,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"poem\">more permanent.\u00a0\u00a0 Top of the stairs<br \/>wondering what it was I came up for<br \/>I make, forget, a note to keep more lists.<br \/>Later collecting Thingummy my wife<br \/>from the nursing home where she works &#8211;<br \/>those white faces at the window<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"poem\">as on the deck of a liner moving off &#8211;<br \/>she tells of Lydia who every day forgets<br \/>her husband\u2019s dead.\u00a0 \u201cWhere\u2019s John?\u201d she asks.<br \/>Each day you have to break the news.<br \/>Words fail.\u00a0 But always the grief &#8211;<br \/>the sense of loss &#8211; cries out afresh.<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temporary Nominal Aphasia \u00a0 \u00a0 is what they call it\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 you know that thingwhere your mind sticks, can\u2019t thinkof the actor in that film What\u2019s-its-Name.An hour later, apropos of nothing &#8211;you\u2019re pulling radishes \u2013 \u201cAl Pacinoin \u2018Donnie Brasco\u2019\u201d &#8211; out it pops. \u00a0 It\u2019s natural the doctors tell us:part of the body slowing uplike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithchandlerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithchandlerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithchandlerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithchandlerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithchandlerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/keithchandlerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/keithchandlerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithchandlerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}