Enduring Aches by Jack Love
A deep, enduring ache creaks down
My back like a rusty hinge on an old
Doorway worn from years of use in a
Family home; I arise at dawn to those
Familiar coos and early words muffled
By a monitor microphone planted across
The way; my ache suggests a day, a week
Or month of lifting thirty pounds of heavy
Weight in a repeated fashion of fatherly
Devotion. I ache, but it is a good ache.
Jack Love is a poet and writer whose creative work has been published in
Gotham Literature, Turtle Island Poetry, Fieldwren, Livina Press, The Dominique,
Crow Line Literary, and several other venues. He has won the Sarah Gordon
Award for critical writing and received an Honorable Mention for Creative
Nonfiction for the Gordone Award.
