where is my mind

walking to work this morning on a very beautiful spring day / doing some shallow errant thinking / fatigued from coming home very late from the airport / last night / my mother-in-law flew in from south florida after a holiday cruising thru the caribbean / & i think of florida / lived there for a short while / as the mind skimmed images and memories / the name of an older poet who lives in florida is just on this side of focused / can't remember the first part / can see his face from author photos & if you google for poems find he's prolific as hell / not remembering / bugging the hell outta me all day / tried a mnemonic device by going thru the alphabet slowly / nada / i need to do brain push-ups or something / memory shot / as if i had hit the delete & emptied the recycled bin / until after dinner i search for one of the poet's books on my shelves / then blam! / the name returned before i could read the spine