Sandra Maresh Doe

Sandra Maresh Doe serves as Professor of English at Metropolitan State University of Denver, where she has been employed since 1965. She published Trip and Return: Poems from 50 Years (Denver: First Cold Press, 2017). Her lifelong research on the artist Ray Boynton, she articulated in “The Fourth Wife: 13 Lines for Artist Ray Boynton (1883-1951).” Pacific Coast Philology. vol. 53, no. 2 2018, pp. 286-288. Recently, she served as poetry editor of Away to Santa Fe: A Collection of Santa Fe Trail Poems to recognize 200 years of trail travel, 1821-2021. (Santa Fe: New Mexico State Library, 2021). She still goes out on the trail to search for or write poems.

"Inner-memo"

TO: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

FROM: The Who Mistook Her Ear Horn for a Snack

DATE: Cerebral Fog Time of the Covid, 2021

RE: Agnosias*

CC: Department of Uncertainty, Health Affairs

Sir: A case of visual bias that peanut brittle

resembles the flesh fob holding a mini microphone

to amplify noise. And the Who had satis-faction-FACT-ion

faction of chew, crunch, gnash, smash –

to masticate the fob to bits.

Such sweet jaw action crushed the mini micro-

phone-phone-phone to the state

and to the condition of “UN” --

unrepairable.

Sir, the Who “ha-ha”s,

The Who “hee-hee”s.

Cerebral fog, “tee-hee”

And “whee.”

*The inability to interpret sensations,

and hence, to recognize things