contenda – January 13
1.13.2017 he hits the bag full on tall white haired brahmin with the just right speed gloves as if he could’ve been a contenda if anyone had noticed. ———————————-
View Articleold friends – January 18
1.18.2017 old friends shuffle around the track one mincing steps close to the rail lest a stumble the other at his side chatting and protecting from those who swoop by in their jogs. no explanations...
View ArticleI think this is the year – March 12
3.12.2107 I think this is the year I’ll die, she said sitting in the padded rocker, with a cup of decaf in her hand. really, we said, this year. yes, I have no idea why I’m still around I’m not...
View Articlehis chair gets up – April 20
4.20.2017 his chairs gets up by itself a button moves him into position to rise, step, move out for bodily functions. and yet his voice is clear his eye sharp his listening full and present,...
View ArticleI ran from my dream – May 30
5.30.2017 I ran from my dream frightened and denying the images of my mortality body withering skinnier each day the muscles outlined and my lover aware, that I thought I would have more time,...
View Articlewrinkly butts – June 20
6.20.2017 [wrinkly butts] we all have wrinkled butts now sags, lines, cleavages where we lost weight after our skin tone stopped bouncing back a sign of grace though, that when our butts were fat and...
View Articleagingness – August 19
8.19.2017 tiredness behind my eyes agingness as a process fending off the trade winds of time. ———————-
View Articlesurvivor guilt – February 26
2.26.2018 in wartime guns rattle, ied’s level the guys next to you, and some come home in pieces, while others in only guises and varieties of a whole. why me, why not me why them, and I’m still here...
View Articlemissing the box – March 26
3.22.2018 Old cat Rosie is missing the box piddles on the floor poops on the carpet. Catzeimer’s, the vet says, her skinnier everyday body letting go. Honor thy father and mother we’ve been told,...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Poems
3.11.2019 [A Tale of Two Poems] you get up later go to bed earlier and you nap in between. hmmmm… prep? —————- you get up later go to bed earlier and you nap in between. hmmm. works for the cat… …...
View Articleover time
3.29.2020 [over time] skin, eyes, hearing, bursa, back, hips, disk and spine, gums and hands, fingers, thumb, trigger fingers, toes that numb. fuzzy throat, coughs that wheeze, tickle that...
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