Here I am!

Counting the rising and ebbing,

72 years,

11 months,

and 1 day

into it.

5′ 11” tall.

(I used to be 6′ 1”)

232 pounds,

(some of it over weight)

Missing a few 1000 strands of hair

on top

where there used to be

100’s of mahogany waves.

127/82 blood pressure

at my check up last week,

69 beats per minute

resting heart rate.

An accumulated tide of numbers.

Now, suddenly, feels,

having reached full tide height,

13 feet high against the bulkhead,

of a full-moon-tide,

it’s started back out,

down the muck-wet-mud

to exposed roots of eel grass

on the rivered flats

and the sticking out rib cage

of a long sunken dinghy,

rotting,

buried in a tidal pool.

Counting the tides.

And the sea,

always the rolling sea.