Best Paring Poems

paring down

old age
called it in
I didn’t choose
this stage 
of paring down
like or not
outgrown roles
are slipping off
like oiled coats
shed rain

it feels respectful
rehearsal
for what’s coming
when every earthly
trait is freed—
so I let posts go
and watch them
fall
to someone new

clearing a place
for what remains, 
the work that prods 
me now
this...

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