This is someone who has always been outgoing, who loved sports, and always stayed busy. But Parkinson’s disease is taking its toll. This once vibrant life is slowing down, the speech is difficult to understand, movement is faltering, the step that was ever so sure now unsteady. Like a ship listing starboard, he continues on to some uncertain horizon.
clinging
to a vanished season . . .
autumn leaf
— Dan Hardison
Contempoary Haibun Online
October 2017, vol 13 no 3
