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AGING

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2009

Bonnie Raingruber
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Type
Poetry/Fiction: Poems
Information
Palliative & Supportive Care , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , September 2009 , pp. 383
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

I makeup my face.
Blood colors me,
razors bleed my skin,
lightning-strike strong.
Stress lines worry, highlighting
wrinkles perpendicular.
Scars checkerboard
my future deliberate.
I am a chess game.
Criss-crossed cuts
confine me. Imprisoned by
past pain, old wounds
fight today's battles for me.