The fog of colors has bright edges
In clearly delineated fragments of memory
Like friendly snapshots come to call.
In my early days they were paintings
Rivalling Rembrandt and Rousseau
Phantasmagorical dioramas.
I learned a new word today – aphantasia
For the loss of that clarity,
That magical realism.
Was it the head trauma
Of a shattered browbone
Or a desire to blanket the moments of disaster?
Did the cheekbone collude with the
Eye socket and ravaged jaw
To let those nerve endings die without rebirth?
It helps to have those bright fragments
Outlining the mysterious fog
And the occasional vivid dream.
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Aphantasia is the inability or difficulty to voluntarily generate visual mental imagery. It can be caused by genetics, brain injury, neurological issues or psychological trauma in some cases. The image shown is my surrealistic painting of a woman in Mcleod Ganj, northern India.
