Old Sensation

 Old Sensation

Birds seem to chirp in otherwise half-deaf ears.

Vision is murky with floaters, and double, except when corrected by glasses.

Hands and lower back are painful, skin itchy.

Smell and taste senses are good, perhaps too good, what with expanding girth.

Proprioception, the 6th sense of self-movement, is weakened, the body wobbly.

Good thing, for a poet, the 7th sense is still tuned - the good sense to perceive metaphor.

The tide ebbs, but it’s still enough to float the boat.