'Man with a Cane' oil on canvas - 2017 - 40wX50.25h"
there was a man
with a limp and
a cane fixed
street bound
he gave off enormity
though it may have been
he was slight in many fashions
I could not tell
and do not remember
I watched him to see
if I could find him
as he walked alone
street down
not wanting to go
but going
not prideful
but proud
we need a word for dignity
that fails as it succeeds
as if by the length of its assertion
like a habit
I thought then
holding what we
find we shape
by our shaping
and the world closed
into the mundane
