"My Sister Solving Puzzles" by Bonita Lee Penn
OCTOBER 2024
My Sister Solving Puzzles
Her Alzheimer's & Dementia Journey
Her brain runs counterclockwise
Confused
Memory
Disappears
Re-appears
Confused
Misplaced
Disorientated
Evaporates
Confused
Counterclockwise, her brain runs.
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9/13/2024
Bonita Lee Penn is Managing Editor of Soul Pitt Quarterly Magazine, a multi-media creative artist, and a poetry workshop facilitator. She is the author of the poetry collection When the Trees Finally Testify and the chapbook Every Morning a Foot Is Looking for My Neck, and she is a contributing poet in the anthology Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience. Her poems have been published in various other literary journals. She is a Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Fellow and a recipient of an Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh grant to produce her poetic stage performance “Gospel in the Wake.” Bonita lives in Pittsburgh, PA, where she is working on a new poetry collection and serves on the Sweetwater Center for the Arts Board of Directors.
