Today's poem is by Mary Elder Jacobsen

Cochlear
       

Regard

the wanting ear,

the dowager who tilts

her silver head nearer

the surgeon who considers

the elderly woman,

her dotage, her ear,

the moon—

all her phases—

how the moon

remaining whole

appears to wane,

how the woman

appearing whole

remains, does wane.

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