Category Archives: health

AUBADE

Posted on December 30, 2023 by hirsutemal
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A Body Feels (the Heat)

Posted on December 30, 2023 by hirsutemal
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Night’s Torments – a hasty first draft – an instant response

Posted on January 25, 2020 by hirsutemal
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As If The Worlds Woe – draft IV

Posted on September 30, 2019 by hirsutemal
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A BODY FEELS – first hasty draft

Posted on July 23, 2018 by hirsutemal

A BODY FEELS (THE HEAT)   Each footstep jolts the ankle, knee and hip provokes a frank response to the humid heat   Today the weariness extends its reach beyond the old familiar aches and pains   Almost as if … Continue reading →

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A Write to Overcome! *

Posted on March 15, 2018 by hirsutemal

    A WRITE TO OVERCOME! *     An all encompassing hollow ache resonates with nauseating discomfort; both mind and body scream aloud, enforcing tears upon an erstwhile stoic frame.   No knowledge can determine whether these tears, yelled … Continue reading →

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When I Could – a poem

Posted on January 31, 2018 by hirsutemal

When I Could (apropos ME)*   when I could I often did   at very least I tried   now I cannot it crucifies    my past life truly died      Malcolm Evison 31 January 2018 * Myalgic Encephalomyelitis – … Continue reading →

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Proprietary Rites

Posted on September 14, 2017 by hirsutemal

PROPRIETARY RITES   These aches, these cruel crucifying pains do not belong to me – today they own me, clamping my lower limbs in their psychotic embrace. Through throbbing knees and tiresome aching hips they pour out scorn on all … Continue reading →

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For These Small Mercies (we proffer thanks)

Posted on July 20, 2017 by hirsutemal

For These Small Mercies (we proffer thanks)   Today, so far at least, is one of gentle shattered-ness; welcome relief from yesterday’s griping pain and aches. An ever present undertow, of generalized discomfort, still leaves the space for a richly … Continue reading →

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dis-ease is everywhere – illustrated poem

Posted on April 27, 2017 by hirsutemal

this poem is straight off the press – one of those rare occasions when the words gave themselves in a relatively short space of time. Expressing my current state of discomfort and dis-ease in some ways enables me to cope … Continue reading →

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