imbalancing act
the mechanisms in me
don’t seem
to work well for balance
and
for movement
so I walk with care
and try not
to place myself in situations
meaning vehicles or
high-
up buildings
in which my feet will forget
and other parts of me
think
frankly
about heaving
and now with pills
more delicate
than
had been usual
and troublesome enough
funny thing on boats
I do okay
and maybe an
irony
it’s the gimbal-movement
I prefer
and I don’t know
I might find
somehow
the rounded-rounding steps a treat
maybe I simply like the water
with
the exercise of breathing
between water-air
and me
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only about me—I hope that is all right and even that you might relate (or appreciate the different perspective)
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Virtually a Sunday
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I pulled on a shirt for church
Only to have technology
Fail me
Or I fail it, more likely
Virtual church
I should walk down the street
Through wide doors
Greet people
Sit down upon the wooden and worn
Bench
Await the start of something formal
Or walk
And keep walking
Chill and sunshine
And have church that way
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Pray as I go
There are things I want
To pray for:
My brother’s health
Cancer
My nephew’s healing
COVID
My neighbor’s heart condition
Another neighbor’s children
COVID in the world
(cancer, too)
The horrid war in Ukraine
War in other places
Where it’s horrid
(always horrid)
Yemen, Myanmar, Sudan
Or violence undeclared
Peace thwarted
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For food for everyone
Safe water
Safe living
I guess I can pray all these things
While walking
Pausing for crosswalks
Maybe I prayed for them now
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