Walking Blues
By Monique Simón
The breeze moves
Deftly
Lifting the heavy curtain
The sun sneaks in
Bright
I avert my eyes
Take cover
Under
The weighted blanket
The daily fog begins
With this new version of early morning CrossFit
Where I roll to one side
To ease the pain
Then the other, and over, and…
Do it again
But, I take breaks
To recover
From the breathy aerobics
To listen to spiders weave
Stories around flies
While the flies brag about their trips
Around the web
Their sunny tales remind me
Of yesterday’s fortune cookie
“It’s another new day”
In bed
The sunlight persists
Through my windowed pain
Until my eyes follow
Its spotlight
To a picture–in high contrast–
Of cobwebs
On my walking shoes
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