It is difficult to put into words.<\/p>\n
Images created are often<\/p>\n
chimeras,<\/p>\n
desert wishes on a long,<\/p>\n
overheated trek.<\/p>\n
Should I take the spoiled<\/p>\n
French bulldog?<\/p>\n
Wearing the sweatshirt<\/p>\n
like a fighter<\/p>\n
warming up,<\/p>\n
he is not where my<\/p>\n
gravity sits.<\/p>\n
The handful of moss<\/p>\n
without the eyes<\/p>\n
would have been better,<\/p>\n
for me, anyway,<\/p>\n
or perhaps not.<\/p>\n
Then there is the keyhole<\/p>\n
window onto the countryside.<\/p>\n
The tree, the tall, uncut grasses,<\/p>\n
the falling down<\/p>\n
of the stone structure.<\/p>\n
This last is most<\/p>\n
like me.<\/p>\n
I kid myself that though<\/p>\n
my running days are over,<\/p>\n
I can still hike.<\/p>\n
I can climb the Blue Ridge Mountains,<\/p>\n
or crawl the Appalachian Trail.<\/p>\n
And I will do this,<\/p>\n
through the pain of<\/p>\n
locking joints,<\/p>\n
the loss of synovial fluid<\/p>\n
in my knee,<\/p>\n
and the agony<\/p>\n
of losing forward.<\/p>\n
Maybe, one day,<\/p>\n
on some grassy, steep knoll,<\/p>\n
instead of walking down<\/p>\n
after climbing up, and feeling<\/p>\n
every grind of<\/p>\n
bone on bone,<\/p>\n
I’ll simply tuck inside myself,<\/p>\n
and roll on down<\/p>\n
the hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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