Take Center Stage

Moments forgotten

tucked away in the cluttered

closets of your mind

come back

full blown

wide screen 3D

blaring

you wakeful

with

the whiff

of a smell

      a food, flower or season

      mown grass, turkey in the oven, a hospice unit at night

      my face in your groin

or a sound

      that tune mashed and flattened

      floated through the grocery store

      recognizable none the less

so slight you look around

astonished others don't seem to notice

the re-enactment taking place

in your technicolor soundstage of your mind.

Every moment captured somewhere

awaiting the trigger

to take center stage

again

and again.