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#VerseLove Day 26 with Scott McCloskey of Michigan – Minor Ailments

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Scott of Michigan is our host for the 26th day of VerseLove2025, inspiring us to write poems about minor ailments. You can read his full prompt here. He gives these directions:  Choose a minor ailment – I just googled it to find a list – and spend a bit of time with it.  Write a poem about it. 

Blurred Vision Apparition

glancing out the living room

window in the early morning

after a night of fierce storms

I see it ~

there behind a tall pine

its left half still obscured

by the tree

an alien-looking specter

with a long right arm

peering in my window

eyes so real they’re trying

to tell me something

I remove my glasses,

rub each lens between the soft

cotton fold of my pajama shirt

and look again

the apparition is still there

with a sense of urgency

in its eyes

but as the sun rises

I realize

it is only the dry bark

of a tree that

didn’t get rain-saturated

but still

I can’t help wondering

its message

for me

2 Replies to “#VerseLove Day 26 with Scott McCloskey of Michigan – Minor Ailments”

  1. Love your poem, Kim. I found a feather the other day and thought the same thing, but I know you are also discussing your eyesight as a minor ailment. Aging is not for sissies. I should have just written, “What?” for my poem yesterday.

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