Looking over an old book I wrote... sending some bits and pieces your way.

Date:   1/13/2006 11:29:57 PM ( 18 y ago)

Reading some poems
that appeared in one of my first books
published in 1980.

It was called "Loving Together"

This is a rewrite I just did of one of them.

Hospitals handle flesh and blood.
In them nurses roam
late barefoot
easing pain.
Nurses make hospitals
more than bricks and stone.
They bring Life and hope.

University Hospital
Salt Lake City, Utah
November 10, 1975

Journal entries at Harpos

I spent the first day of Fall 1975 on crutches.
I could not sit, drive my own car, or spread my legs apart.
The first day of winter 1975, I was using a cane.
My hip joints had been removed to get me walking again.
I spent the first day of Spring 1976, at midnight,
sourrouded by the love of my friends,
up to my legs in the ocean off Mission Beach, San Diego,
chasing a grunion. Harpo cooked them, and we ate one or two.

March 1976

For a long time, I could not see what they saw in me.
I would walk to the beach and look myself in the glass in front
of Hamel's bike shop. I was shrawny, walked awkwardly,
and had a scrutinizing and uncomfortable expression on my face.
One day Tracy came over. I was in the middle of a happy
conversation with her. I walked into the other room and by
chance saw myself in the mirror. I had a smile a mile wide
and my eyes sparkled. That was what they saw, and I saw it too.
It was beautiful.

May 3, 1976



 

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