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tough & happy, crystal eyes
ruled thirty years the public courts
swooped across the competition
ladder, lifted, in her power serve
grunted out the backhand, the
unflinching doubles net game
hydraulic smooth pivot in her netball
golfing well as men, driving Drinkers’
drinkers home in cold conditions
as the Past dissolve, in the broad
parameters of Load, unconsciously
the old now unfamiliar; little things
at first, of as of recipe, his work
-life, number and the names
we use to feel ourselves essentially
…the blank look, forgetting where they live
wanders any Now unknowing that
behind her, footprints, filling white
ankle deep in cold Alzheimer snows
tapered, narrow neck on sorrows
the memories unrelate-able
fall amongst the falling swirl
the snowflakes, when they’re gone.
nameless, he drives on, deposits her
in Care. Her end.