You Have to Practice

Steve with Jacket over his head

I write with my wings and my heart hops in the grass.

I can be any age I wish. Today I’m 100 years old.

I met a monk in the sauna of a Finnish monastery—

his sweat smelled like strawberries.

This is who I am, you see.

When I’m very old it will always be summer.

 

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Author: stevekuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University

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