Challenge
"Tell me..."
"...what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?" (Mary Oliver) Poetry or prose
Wild and Precious
This Arthritis
that we've Caught
in the Family Joints
is Psychosomatic
the Witch Doctor
in Chile told me
for Health
He said, Keith,
Heathcliff, Fred err,
Whatever:
Stop Drinking in
the Diluted Expectation
of Society Conventions!!
Stay inside a Few Nights
a Hundred let's Say
on Your Back
in this Arabesque Twig Hut
with Its Gap Tooth grin
where the Sky and
all Its Bugs
can Finally reach
to Your Innards
unburden Your Skeleton
So you can Walk,
Free with Conviction
a Living Red Line
to Flow from
Bones to Fingers
When You Rise
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