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Flailing

Writer's picture: Surviving Breast CancerSurviving Breast Cancer

By Sara Kandler


rainbow tendrils flail in the wind

catch on the maple tree knobs

a gift we brought you back from 

a day at the beach

fish meant to fly

pinned lifeless to your bookshelf

now hangs by our driveway

ribbons twist and tear

struggle in the gusts like

you bent over your red walker

back torqued like the fish hook of the Outer Cape

aching knees give out at a moment’s notice

one fall and I’m gone

you taunted with a mischievous grin

your favorite truism

don’t 

get 

old

or the rare compliment

you done good

and the one about the cabbie who declared

let me be the foist ta congratulatchas

you and mom settling in for the ride downtown

dressed to the nines

such a handsome couple

no one could deny