Sled

Researchers have documented an intriguing phenomenon whereby simply walking through a doorway causes forgetting.

—from an abstract for an article in Memory, 2016

In theory the opposite of theory works when you refuse
to just breeze through, or in my mother’s case can’t
get past the shed’s frozen doors while dancing
with a sled, so young, so pleasantly impossible
to exorcise, meaning my ups and downs
never stop on the hump we call a hill