Friday, January 14, 2011

A daytime moon
hangs above the icy parking lot.
A man shrunken and bent
inches his walker
across the lane,
snow banked in low mounds
against the curb of the sidewalk.
Cars murmur in pause,
waiting, observing.
This is old.
This is disability.
This is a human being.
Most of all,
this is a man.

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