The songsmith says
The knee is connected to the leg
Bone
Straight and long
Center and core of strength
Bone
Dense yet porous
Carrying the weight of life
Bones
Easily broken by sticks and stones
Words can bend them
Bones
Little ones, big ones
Curved and hollow
Bones
Lots of them
Piled high in the shallow earth
Bones
Uncovered and unclothed
Unskinned and unmuscled
Bones
Unraced and unethniced
Untall and unshort
Bones
Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
Bones
When I am no longer connected
Who will tend my
Bones
© NP 11/09
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