The women spinning

poetry

Grandma once said she only wanted to watch the women ice skate on the TV

that she could hardly walk around the room but that she could sit and that she could watch

and so she’d wait for the program to come

the one with the women and their skates

and she’d watch

the women spinning

/ when I was at home I found videos and I saved videos

the ones with the women spinning

the women skating on the hard ground

/ when I shared them with her, she looked confused

she fussed with her shirt

/ a year later she was dying

in a hospital bed, she said, let me out of here,

she said, this mask isn’t mine

and so I said, we’re going upstairs

I said, you’ll be comfortable there

and when I said this, she sunk and she nodded

she spun and she skated

on the hard ground