DescriptionWrist is a collection of poems that deals with memory. They are pieces that explore how memory is assigned, often falsely, arbitrarily, yet often crystallized in clarity. These poems explore memory as a sort of performance or event that one is incapable of creating or recalling in the same exact way twice. In some ways, memory is very much a kind of happening that Allan Kaprow was invested in establishing. This collection of work represents a happening of memories that may seem disconnected or disjointed, but also has a commonality. At times that commonality may not be completely clear, but rather a nagging sensation of how the pieces actually connect. This is meant to echo the difficulty of recreating and recalling memory. After all, memory is random, disparate, and often a distortion, yet at the same time a history to our past, present, and future selves. In a word, memory is chaotic as is the concept of memory. Memory is something that we constantly carry with us, even when we do not have the vocabulary to express the intricacies of it. Imagine memory as a tangled slinky. While there may be a very distinct beginning and end to our lives, everything else is impossible to separate and parcel out.