three weeks of practicum
too many hours passed at
one Point
my patients were oft very weak;
so we did our therapy on the beach,
where we spent hours rebuilding castles
formerly fortified until the tide of time swept by
home seems to be this destruction and construction–
not of sand, but of am:
being. torn down only to rebuild,
made empty so as to be filled
i found the floor full of an unseemingly finite number of rocks, crystals, and fossils all formlessly made a formidable surface to apply forces for performing physical exertions
all my patients progressed
none. the less.
Header photograph © Jason D. Ramsey.
Ikem “Na-Chi” Ukeka is a Physical Therapy doctoral candidate at Midwestern University. He dabbles in different forms of poetry, from hip-hop to spoken word. His poem “when pillows talk” was recently published in Fathom. He is also the author of the chapbook, “y. Solo” (LuLu Press, 2017), which is available as a hardcopy and digitally via major e-book distributors. You can follow him on Twitter @Ikem_NaChi and see more of his work on his website http://ikem-nachi.tumblr.com
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