a leg of ligaments

the river carries

my sadness

but it too

drowns

in sky and sun

*

tender tendons

tend on to muscle

your way through

your way to muscle

*

what you could do

was once you couldn’t

until you could do couldn’t

*

in the beginning

there is the end

which is why we

begin things that

end us

yet even then

there is always

always and more

than then