the very old man
shouts his secret PIN
to the card scanner
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Tag: aging
2560
cold weather sailors
in my back, neck, and shoulders
practicing their knots
2536
our country’s future
sticks her fingers in my mouth
burbling laughter
2534
My family mocks
my forgetting … I’d argue
but the words aren’t there
2533
a concert— your dress
embroidered with daisies
luminous black light
2528au
shutting the yearbook
all those scribbled messages
bottles washed ashore
2525r
younger than some hills
older than some redwoods
birthday coming up
2521r
trinkets for mermaids
seashells gathered by children
so will my bones be
2513
my fellow hermits
honor my decades alone
engraved loving cup
2512
This morning my phone had a text
from the police. Missing man, 84 years old,
has dementia.
to wander the streets
ignorant of everything
mindful as the wind
2508
wakes me past midnight
grandkids in my old bedroom
crying in their dreams
2507
stumbling in fog
that doesn’t clear up
getting old gets old
2504
on her new chairlift
waves and smiles as she soars
my aunt’s ascension
2496
grandtoddler talking
to her talking toys
making fun of me
2492
trapped with the grandkids
another day of screaming
play I’ll fly away
