#poetry isn't really my jam but i tried to get some words out anyway

[watercolourcritters]

a blow to the head at age 29, a decade defined

(I’ve been having thoughts about aging, and healing, and living with a disability - this attempted poem is the result.)

follow up bday comics: thirty-four

[ID: A poem with art to accompany the stanzas, shown over six images. The art is simple black line art with the exception of the last picture, and the stanzas of the poem are hand written beside each drawing. 

One:

today I am 33 the three years I have dwelt in this decade of my life have been spent healing

The accompanying art shows a line drawing of the back of my head and shoulders. One of my hands comes up to clasp the back of my neck

Two: rehab shouldn’t take years, but it does. the unraveled brain takes time to heal

The art shows my hand holding up a convergence visual therapy exercise, which is a small card with two black circles on it, each with another smaller black circle inside it, labeled A and B. Three: to knit neural pathways back together forge other paths anew

The accompanying art shows a brain, with maze-like straight lines inside of it, that all originate from a single dot. A spiral surrounds the brain. Four: no one thought it would take this long.

The art shows a pocket watch and chain, lying open so the watch face is visible. Five: but I am finding myself, finding new ways of living bask in the sunlight, breathe the air of contentment into my lungs

The art is of a windowsill full of potted plants, many of which are succulents. Some grow up the window, reaching for the sun.

Six:

my brain is not yet done and neither am I I wonder who I will be in another three years. 

The accompanying art shows my hand, holding a single yellow dandelion. The dandelion and its stem are the only spots of colour throughout the entire piece. The artist’s signature reads hg 2022. End ID.]

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