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My Skeleton by Michael Penny

By LCP | September 25, 2023
Poem title: My Skeleton Poet name: Michael Penny Poem: walks in the middle of my body, easy in its knowledge it will outlive me. This makes it inflexible, even hard on the muscles which cling to it. It doesn’t know there are parts it doesn’t cage, a beating heart truly untouched by it. Yes, it cups my brain and its high electric notions but a container is not as important as what it contains. My skeleton would like to leave now, make its own clattering way in the world but I am too possessive, too attached to let it go. End of poem. Credits and bio: Copyright © Michael Penny Previously published in My Chimera, (Buschek Books, 2006). Michael Penny has published five books and in over forty journals in six countries. He lives on an island near Vancouver and pursues his interest in land use planning as a volunteer on the island’s Advisory Planning Commission
Posted in 2023, Poetry Pause
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