Technique?
Some potion or position?
Some knack to pick up
like riding a bicycle?
Meditation regimen?
A certain aroma?
Daily communion?
A rosary in the hands?
A scapular, remember them?
(brown cords across the shoulders
attached to rectangular emblems
of Mary on my chest,
the Sacred Heart of Jesus
on my back)
A piece of the true cross?
Bone from a saint?
The Buddha’s eyelash?

Deckhand mops the floor.
Engine vibrates my sternum.
Reading glasses are smudged,
So I clean them.

 

 

From “The Fulcrum: Selected Poems 2000 – 2010,” by Sam Rogers, copyright 2011

 

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