Saturday, March 26, 2016

RESURRECTION SHOWER


After months
flat on my back
I began
my return

in a nursing home

in a wheel chair

under a shower

with a 
tender aide
playing a fine spray
of hot water
onto my head.

Pleasure
so intense
I saw stars

and shivered
and laughed
and called

Thank God!

And that tender aide 

lit up

joined my glee
  
ran
a soapy cloth
across my chest

and whispered

Al-Hamdu Lillah

Al-Hamdu Lillah.


RW

2016

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