Meals on wheels
Christmas dinner is difficult on a plate under tin foil on a tray in a car at high speed plate rattles gravy settles peas shake sprouts sweat on the flat plate drifts followed by gravy peas dance sprouts collapse round corners plate skateboards bleeding gravy peas roll sprouts stink upon arrival skew-whiff gravy stains wrinkled […]
STAPOWRIMO
I don’t know about you but those wobbly red letters that we have to type in before we can submit our feedback are getting to me. So here’s a Haiku loosely based on the Illness prompt. StaPoWriMo feedback health warning head spins, eyes wobble watching three red letters shake
Creatures of air
I see them do it every day – skim the topmost branches en route to somewhere else. I rarely think of the fullness of their bellies. Easy to ignore their tireless pecking, seeds and mice slipping down unhindered gullets. I do it too, skim supermarket shelves, by-passing easy-to-swallow soup and all those drink […]
Closing down
Closing down Afterwards he rose again and walked but it became apparent he was merely going through the motions. His powers were reduced, and reducing. It was as if his generator was shot, his batteries couldn’t be recharged. Mechanisms unwinding, never to be rewound. Systems failing, one by one. Going slower and slower.
Family Room
You don’t want to be here so you roll up this world into a ball, cocoon it in your husband’s lap. Perhaps you’re asleep, exhausted with pleading. There is little we need to say, relieved as you stretch out in the sunlight that beckons through holes in the screened window. Perhaps you’re listening as we […]
Day 15.
Galway Kinnell’s poem on Parkinsonism is rich in detail. http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=9496 Illness in all its human dimension.