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30 From Skin to Bone Vital sign of a patient: check marks in boxes: life, death. Still eyes behind paper, film. I touch my grandfather’s hand. Breath trembles: silent movie. Bleach diluted with darkness. Eraser smudges; it does not erase. I read his eulogy in a crossword puzzle. Watch black, white television, static shapes, the yin and yang. A skeleton holds the last sheet of paper and I wait for the cursor to stop. today’s newspaper said,“tomorrow’s Suffering, 31 Yesterday’s grief.” On my page I see a checkerboard of fill in the blanks. I use punctuation marks and letters to play it. But I shiver at the clock ticking over my shoulder shaping itself into a skull. ...

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