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jon cree's avatar

Love this clare. So as I waited for my hernia op today I wrote this for the surgeon and gonna leave in next the bed. Thanks for lightening the anticipation. And now I'm desperate for tea!

Open toed squeeze tights

Bring chuckles...who invented these

I pull my purple stripey socks on

Toes need tending too you know

They told me I didn't need a gown

So a small white towelling

Covers my modesty

And I look out of the window

Sitting in the glow of greenness

The deep yew green tinged with lime

I feel into the insertion

Of a net to keep muscle at bay

A question arises

Where do you flex your muscles

Yew tree, Daisy, Rhodey and ivy

Do you pop under strain?

And my toes wriggle.

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Clare Mulvany's avatar

Oh Jon. Thank you so much for this. Hope your recovery is going well. And what a wonderful poetry gift to leave! Poetry travels, in the most unlikely of places... and now hopefully a surgeon's pocket, and heart. Thank you for carrying the baton.

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