169 10 6
|
I gentled you, unworded you......
|
430
|
When muscle tone and joint strength/
join the absent attributes, you’ll slump/
within your favorite chair and wonder/
what became of you, once fiercely vertical?
|
12222312
|
The skin will stay but you won’t see it,/
camouflaged by creases, tags, and curious/
deposits of renegade fat and pigment.
|
82741
|
I had a temperature of 105 degrees. I lost all my hair.
|
18242
|
That shirtless guy looks like the man I almost married. I can almost feel that beard sanding my inner thighs again.
|
80733
|
The leaves/
seek reunion with the ground//
and leave the oak tree naked/
in December’s cold.
|
7654
|
I sat you down, took your hand;
gentled, kissed, and unworded you.
|
8071410
|
The knees remind you: you are old,/
and broken, and unlikely to improve
|
