Evening Gym Workout

 

It must be tendons
    chain men from
going further, to tighten
                    more reins—
to force beyond prison
                    walls
to freedom.

                        We know
    hourglass sands,
much like millipedes,
                    moving as
    disinterested
                    soldiers,
    harried

fearing

                    and some—
they work and play
    despite
rains,
                    muddied and
    torn,
soonest to rot. Some

they dance to keep away
    the land fumes and
the pain, and
some others in love
become wholly
                        tender. Why

women lack enough
                    muscle to
                    raise hell
                        to break
bones
is good. No tendons to
    keep them, no
petals
torn
            while
wrestling knowledge—

lifting the weights
of natural lighting.

 

 

—Dec./84 - 17 July/92

 

 

 

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