RECOVERY MOBILITY

shibboleth

By Erin Latham SheaPublished about a year ago • Updated about a year ago • 1 min read

two boldface plea-incentives adorn

the back wall of the clinic; I always

read them - a shibboleth - between

heel raises. There are others who

come here with turf in their shoes,

but I come here from hydrotherapy:

a graduate in warding off muscle

wasting. Today, I reverse the words

(MOBILITY RECOVERY) until the

mantra slides down my calf and hits

my cuboid: distributed weight. Then,

I reconfigure the decorative rep bait

into a tottering micro-poem:

(re)cover / (hyper)mobility.

I stretch the language, another type

of connective tissue: "(re)cover" as in (re)conceal, (re)insure, (re)balance,

or, worse, (re)bury. Double-booked

words becoming corporeal, again

I point my toes. Two sets of eight.

Publication Credit: "RECOVERY MOBILITY" first appeared in The Orange Rose Literary Magazine Issue 1

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