IAM Commemorates National Poetry Month
Footfall
Kristen Gaylord
“It’s more efficient,” he said,
“to not resist gravity.”
And with that pronouncement he flopped down the hill,
feet slapping, body bouncing.
I followed demurely, squandering my potential energy.
Succumbing to inherited Puritan meekness,
I pass through undisturbed space.
Muscles strain to manage my presence
as I deliberately position my feet on the stairs—
not too high, lest my heel drop heavily
but not too low, lest I scrape the edge—
with my Newtonian unseemliness.
But that day on the hill in an English summer
I learned to embrace the human.The heaviness was awkward
and my joints knocked together
when this marionette loosed her strings.
As my weighty body accelerated down the hill
on the crest of losing control,
I smiled, and disturbed.
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