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Blue Today
Today was one of those blue days for me. I go for another PET scan tomorrow and it felt as if my will to move on is being calmed, almost as if the towel is hitting the floor ever so gently....
I found this poem and cried as I thought of all of you wonderful women, so strong and kind and empathic. It is to you I send this from my heart....
THE SWIM
Into my empty head there come
a cotton beach, a dock wherefrom
I set out, oily and nude
through mist, in chilly solitude.
There was no line, no roof no floor
to tell the water from the air.
Night fog thick as terry cloth
closed me in its fuzzy growth.
I hung my bathrobe on two pegs
I took the lake between my legs.
Invaded and invader, I
went overhead on that flat sky.
Fish twitched beneath me, quick and tame.
In their green zone they sang my name
and in the rythym of the swim
I hummed a two-four-time slow hymn.
I hummed "Abide with me." The beat
rose in the fine thrash of my feet,
rose in the bubbles I put out
slantwise, trailing through my mouth.
My bone drank water; water fell
through all my doors. I was the well
that fed the lake that met my sea
in which I sang "Abide In Me"
Love to you all tonight, vickie
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