Jimmy Burns
FALL VIGNETTES
Below hospital bracelet
arm band reads:
"RISK OF FALLING."
Horizontal on cold tile
fingers stretch to fondle
phone. Call 9-1-1.
Rescue squad strains
to put Humpty-Dumpy
back in his wheelchair.
Constant paranoia,
fear of falling,
fear of impact.
Vertically challenged:
toes clutch possibility
of fatal plunge.
* * *
STRETCH
Stretch:
Body
on edge of wheelchair
extended
to capture
the immovable
object.
Jimmy Burns, a survivor of a stroke writes his poetry
from his Wheelchair. Recent poetry in Chest, Edgz, Mad Poets, Pegasus and Wordgathering. |