My bended fingers:
From working so hard
Un-straightened digits
With some painful gout.
My knobby knuckles:
Staring like eyeballs
By welcoming palm
A fist to close its anger.
My dry cuticles:
Ragged with hangnails
White canopy smile
Dimples of snowflakes.
My square, pointed nails:
Trimmed closed to design
Dark vertical lines
Ridges as polish.
My ten digit toes:
Both index hammered —
Right one towards top
Left one to middle.
Big toes — side bunions.
Pinky callus and
Under middle right.
Heels of white train tracks.
Head dander and flakes.
Dry skin and acne.
Elbows and knees joint
Cracks like the dessert.
Seven genetic poems of four-lined stanzas ‘describing skin conditions’ in free-verse.
Copyright © 2007 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.
Oh, John Jr! That’s longer than I would ever imagine, especially for your conditions! So I shouldn’t rant like this…