On/My/Aging

By Carolyn Marie Rodgers
The spirit is so hurt

          it don’t know the

                                       body.

                                   It

                                       looks in

                                                       the mirror

                                    and asks, who is it?

Notes:

From Morning Glory (Eden Press, 1989). Reproduced with permission of Nina Rodgers Gordon.

This poem is part of the portfolio “Carolyn Marie Rodgers: What Beauty We Now Have” from the October 2022 issue.

Source: Poetry (October 2022)