Stairway Of Leaves (Haiku) Poem by Denis Mair

Momentary pleasures are like falling leaves...and there is actually something like a stairway of pleasure in the brain, leading from creature comforts through emotional bonds to cerebral delights. It is a series of dopamine-activated centers...from the brainstem up to the lateral hypothalamus, through the midbrain nuclei, running along the medial forebrain bundle, all the way to the frontal cortex. (See Jaak Panksepp, THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF MIND)

I also wrote a longer poem under this title.