Friday, 13 October 2017

Fingerless Gloves



Wearing those fingerless, arthritis taming gloves 
didn’t make the play on words an aphorism - not 
that wisdom had anything to do with it; it was an 
early morning coolness voicing th’ only meaning 
making sense, whose was the winning hand? A 
lack of finger-sensitivity & numbness irked - that 
inimitable component of each morning bug-bear 
where fingers fail to achieve a proper sentience 

But we persevere, making anarchy an unseemly 
state of cognisance where even the gloves give 
comfort in their tacit agreement they cannot win; 
their advice delivers a warm breath at least, and 
thus eased the elastic confines we seek the sun 
where its no longer a struggle to be home free 
© 16 May 2017, I. D. Carswell 

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