Earlier I wrote that
“Sometimes need to see the
span…” and realized that the
I was left out and
the sentence was incomplete
Neglected
would it b(neglected)
a span of
Beauty
span alone
some spread between abutments
span of glory
or defined as
distance of, between,
thumb, my
thumb to my little
finger
a spread hand to
hand on the wheel
of my car
I drove up the
narrow pass around
hairpin turns
span from hair to hair
route to root, follicle
or family
and saw a sign
that said Don’t Drive
Impaired with a
picture of a martini and a key
martini defined by the span of a
triangular circle of a glass
Impaired with sorrow
I drove through
no key to sorrow day
to day
through span of
mood to mood
from ok to not quite
right
span of mood to
depth and breadth
and height that
Elizabeth Barrett BrowniXX ng
(doodle if you screw up any spelling)
that she grandly
stated about her
soul reaching
while mine grasps
something anything anywhere
during easy and hard times
span, distinct definition, the
spread between my limits with the
wintery bulk of sorrow
in the delaying impairment,
death, hairpin, family follicle
root I pace the route
to move neglect
away from alone.