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