Strokes

      Clear-headed time at a touch
      Shows all too much.
      The resentful body grows old;
      Youth and strength have gone
5     Disgraced from the stage.
      Vague as a notion,
      The room swims into view;
      Dawn stutters into motion.
      Time has done to you
10    Things time shouldn't do.
      An old man stares out
      From an oval steel mirror,
      Your face in one clout
      The face of a stranger:
15    Cataract-eyed, his blind
      Grip gone round a razor.

 

From the collection "The Timid Leaper"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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