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old friends – April 20
4.20.2015 I can’t do what you do anymore, he said I’m just too tired, too fuzzy. Don’t wait for your bucket list, she says, after eighty it just gets too hard. And yet there they both are, still...
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Kyrie – May 31
5.31.2015 mortality creeps in on little scabs unhealing wounds ever so small. at a certain age the wheel turns and something, something, will be a turning that won’t retreat. the mind knows...
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all downhill – July 31
7.31.2015 bicycle pedals push and pull at muscles and joints yet the breeze gives joy even amidst the hurt sailing like a boy down inclines that barely angle but enough from when my days were...
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old faces – August 15
8.15.2015 old faces look out at distances they cannot fathom to times that disappear into what. there was always purpose, task now only days seemingly empty no apparent seeming except to breathe and...
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labor day – September 7
9.7.2015 I walked too far yesterday, I’ll walk too far again today. all my muscles ache but I find myself laughing amused at how this is just what bodies do and if you don’t laugh you cry so...
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fixing things – December 4
12.4 (11.23).2015 [fixing things] fixing things repairing maintaining the ongoing ongoing of house car self. —————–
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watching faces remember – January 28
1.18.2016 [watching faces remember] watching faces remember youth and heroes and yearnings a tweak at the corner of a mouth sharpening of an eye, the grin something fresh and clean of ideals...
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flickering images – February 4
2.4.2016 laughing voices smile at flickering images on the wall did you know what about who was all aglow reconvening the heroes of our youth. ———————
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birthday seventy-three – February 6
2.6.2016 phone calls from children frame the day voices of family friends more smiles emerge gently and flex the soul being remembered recalled, reconnected the real gifts of the day. ——————————
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sitting with history – February 12
2.12.2016 [sitting with history] sitting with history all around in stacks and microfiche in displays that show past times that are mine. how can it be that the everyday of my life is now the...
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beds now empty – February 27
2.27.2016 beds now empty we move tables chairs rugs desks adjusting steps for playing the next game. ———————-
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old cat moves – February 29
2.29.2016 old cat meows at the dish her bony back squeaking as she walks dull grey cataracts moon disking in her eyes but still queen of the house. ———————-
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old cat – March 15
3.15.2016 old cat steps up gingerly, her body no longer sprung steel. lying down with her head askew she watches the momma waiting, waiting a slight twitch head lift, wonder, query will the one...
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words start to escape – May 9
5.4.2016 words start to escape you. these yellow flowers that just cropped up on the lawn. I knew them only yesterday what’s the word, I ask. dandelions, she says. oh, right… something with...
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leaden arms – May 26
5.18.2016 leaden arms and legs, signals in the night that the body has not yet discovered immortality. ——————–
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motorscooter hip – August 7
8.7.2016 motorscooter hip ster ridin’ cool with my biker babe. if only my hip didn’t let me know that my cool is cooling. ——————
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young and tough – September 3
9.3.2016 drawn face shows the stress of long days into nights of work young and tough is the assumption but human nevertheless. —————-
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I fall more now – October 25
10.22.2016 I fall more often now on a stair across a pup into a plastic pile and down a slope my friend fell over his puppies’ feet as they scrambled with the Sunday paper and cup of coffee in his...
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warrior two – December 9
12.9.16 [warrior two] warrior two pose stretches the thigh then slides into a tree from which my body slopes over into a fall. breathe through the strained place she implores hold the prayer...
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fixin’s – December 27
12.27.2016 stuff’s breaking down more now he said, old cars degrading piece by piece ‘till you wonder if or when the motor’s gonna go and it’ll be no longer worth putting the money in to fix ‘er up....
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