Monday, December 7, 2020

This Body Has Survived

This body has survived for

three-quarters of a century,

twenty-five or thirty thousand

risings of the sun.

This body has carried me

to school, to work,

to love, to being free

from daily labor,

and yet--

it is not me.

More naked I cannot be

until this body

sets me free.






Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Donald Jacobson Traxler.


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