Stuck At The Synapse

By Susan F. Adams

LOVELAND, OH (December 3, 2024) – Poet Susan F. Adams tells us: “A synapse is the space between two nerves not next to each other” as an explanation for her poem “Stuck at the Synapse”.

It’s a poem that will draw on your own memory experiences.

In her own words:

A synapse is the space between two nerves not next to each other. The brain is full of them. In the space is what looks like a hair that goes down to the base of the space. It recreates chemicals down there. That’s what gets he nerve impulse across the space to the other nerve. Thay are called Dendrites. The older we get, the less we have. That is one of the reasons we have trouble remembering a name or a word we want to say now and maybe repeat it shortly after.

We’re supposed to help this by: reading a lot, brain games, word associations, jig-saw puzzles with 500 or more pieces. I do better memorizing the first few letters of the word I want to remember forever. For example, Compromise – I keep saying “Com” then I think I’m a “pro”. When I say “Compro”, I can get “mise”. Good luck.

STUCK AT THE SYNAPSE

SUSAN F. ADAMS – JANUARY 21,2005

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