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Climbing the Wall (Free verse) by ecargo

To reach the bell, I begin navigating kinder-colored plastic protrusions, reaching, grasping, heaving, pulling up, pushing off misshapen blocks, gravity's fool fighting my pull, my own weakness of muscle and will, hands curled, crab clawed and aching to gain each inch, feet scrabbling, straining to stick to the stucco, to grip-- but I slip, belay my way down to the ground. This trick of undoing: I, Spiderman, nimble, sticky-handed, a fact of my being, superpowered (rasping like an old engine) up the wall by inches and grimaces. But my slippery foe, Old Doubt, wins out, and I let loose the false grasp and lose the wall, and again--again!--I fall. Should I tell how I prevailed, tolled my triumph at the top? Or how I failed and pathetically dropped? Old Robert had it right: reach, grasp (gasp, drop).

ecargo 14-Mar-06/5:52 AM
Excellent, R! Both of 'em seem good "read aloud" poems. Bookends rhyming (and a Horseshoe's cultural cornucopia). Good for you for getting up there, 7 people or 70. I hate the idea of doing readings, always think I'll be shaky voiced on the rare rare occasions I can bring myself to do 'em, but then it's never as bad as I think.




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