There Are Already Days

Painting by Norman Engel


there are already days

there are already days
when my entire
body is
a question mark –
fingers stop
playing, shoulder
blades leak
acid, forearms
cry foul, knees
face a long stretch
of staircase below
with premature
apprehension
.

Yi-Ching Lin

Posted over on Yi's Bits on "Healthy Doses"