Category Archives: Health

Breakage

Posted on September 23, 2016 by sputterpub

In general, the goods that we create we can repair, but sometimes we must start afresh with new design, and orchestrate a different way, and pull our stuff apart, to make it well. At times a damaged bone requires breaking … Continue reading →

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Sexagenaria

Posted on September 13, 2016 by sputterpub

I know it takes some bravery to age, but no one mentioned every sad surprise. So I was steeled to wrinkle, for the stage that features fear of falls, for failing eyes and hearing loss as I grew long in … Continue reading →

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The Latest Complaint

Posted on September 12, 2016 by sputterpub

Four months ago I hurt my finger, when I tried to help a neighbor up who fell. The woman’s old but mean; she flailed and then my pinky twisted and began to swell. Ensuing bruising purpled half my hand, retreating … Continue reading →

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Body Language

Posted on September 8, 2016 by sputterpub

Like everyone, I’m interested to see if others of my cohort have the clue that played out leads to centered ecstasy, so I keep watching her and him and you. We’re almost elders now but seldom wise. We seem to … Continue reading →

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Body

Posted on September 7, 2016 by sputterpub

I was a bright child. I think I scared my parents a little. They were always reacting with a mix of surprise, delight, and wariness to my ideas. My father, a natural introvert like me, was more comfortable with my … Continue reading →

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Solitude

Posted on August 30, 2016 by sputterpub

You look at me like I’m insane, because I say that I don’t want a partner yet. You act as if a set of natural laws demands that I be married. You forget how bad I was at being someone’s … Continue reading →

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How I Spent Today

Posted on August 29, 2016 by sputterpub

My alternating interests ruled today. At times I read a book I’ve got by heart, and in between I tried to grasp the way our bodies handle energy. So part of me inhaled two hundred years ago, the balance breathing … Continue reading →

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Melanoma

Posted on August 23, 2016 by sputterpub

“He’s gone to life’s next phase,” the mother wrote to thousands in the database of prayer. She typed her pain around a guru’s quote and filled our monitors with grief. “Beware the power of the sun. Apply your screen without … Continue reading →

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Fat Sonnet

Posted on August 19, 2016 by sputterpub

With swollen legs and burning heart and every cell athirst, with flesh as tight as drumskin and a roughened tongue accursed from all the salts and fats and sweets that nearly made me burst, I pen this song of pig-and-bloat, … Continue reading →

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Masque

Posted on August 11, 2016 by sputterpub

The seasoned salts of ancient history included superstitions in their trade. Encountering the buxom manatee, they chanty-named the animal “mermaid.” Were they by saline spray and fog so blind, or by long voyaging did they forget? They saw the attitude … Continue reading →

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