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BOZZETTo

Turkey jOints gone awry

my lOOther's knuckles swell chokecberry red
and blemished. Arthritis

at fifty, gnarled bone and twisted metacarpal
the skin wi thers on hand back like chafed
sail cloth

Or dry wattle

or falcons r talons, tautly
pulls over the bone

the rubbery cover to a HOOremaguette;

hump round, Socket gorged, clay veined
t:hey kneaded ~ once they loved

me always, they wince, 'they redden, they puff,
a'thile.y knUc.k.le, they knuckle, they crack and

--Greg Gatenby

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