WHAT IS TEMPORARY?

WHAT IS TEMPORARY?

                      

I don’t usually choose  

to park this close – 

unlike those

who sport

handicapper signs.

Parking lots

help me exercise.                        

And this cane

you think you see

is actually                  

a mountain hiking stick.                                                                             

I say I’m practicing.

In reality

it steadies my walk    

and helps me manage

my sciatica.

The stick, it’‘s just temporary.

Freedom will come with surgery.

But it is normal for

old spines to collapse.

So I may keep my stick –

stow it there

with all my other

hiking gear.                                                                                                                                                       

   

Dennis R. Keefe

October 21, 2009