Bare Winter
for GF
The doctor writer’s brung
a doctor’s question:
what are you looking
forward to this winter?
But it doesn’t really work
like that– not with pain days,
what with rain days, bugs
(no medicine), walks
hemmed in – for Hope not
to become a lash, what
I’m looking forward to
this winter, doc, is Love.
24.XII.23
Well said. These "conversational" questions are often nonsensical for those who have chronic illnesses or pain. When I see the question "If you only had a day/week/year to live, what would you do...?" I just sigh, for it is the question for the healthy and wealthy. Then when I answer that I would like to become a goose, a pink-footed goose, I feel that I am spoiling the game. But it's true.
Sending you much love at Xmas Alec x