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Stroke Dance

Andy Roberts

Once off the crutches
my father walks like a dog with a broken spine,
moving in slow circles, desperate to please,
speech a series of barks and whines,
tapping the tip of his cane in code,
a morse for narcotics.

Dressed in pajamas he performs
his nightly dance for approval
down the hospital hallway,
brightly painted cane a carved root
from the Caribbean, tapping a music
slow and thick as the tongue in his head.

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