Unconscious Primate Pandemic Panic
I wrap my left foot around my right foot if there's nothing better to wrap it around and my right foot is always there, long-suffering.
I wrap my left foot around other things if they're available: chair legs, table legs, the center pedestal of any piece of furniture.
I wrap my left foot around castors and make a good effort to move the wheels with my toes.
I wrap my left foot around anything off the floor an inch and close enough for my foot to reach. I slide down in my seat if necessary and my toes go under for a little tickle.
I wrap my left foot around so much it sickles at rest.
My left foot came alive a few nights ago while I was sleeping, woke me up. I saw the sheet moving, felt the muscles squirm without my help, trying to get a grip.
A classic case of "lonesome foot." I hope you haven't embarrassed it with this exposé. You don't want it to morph into "angry foot!"
An uncontrollable foot ... expressing a certain malaise caused by the pandemic ... Great idea and such fun in spite of the seriousness of the underlying cause.
"trying to get a grip." Exactly.
Panic. What to do? Endure the longing, I suppose. *
I love the way your ended this. Skillful writing throughout *
"My left foot came alive a few nights ago while I was sleeping, woke me up."
Memory is a great and terrible state. I wrap, I wrap, I wrap .... "trying".
Good piece - very hybrid - poem and micro. Made Russell Edson's "The Adventures of a Turtle" spring to mind - the voice and form.
I like.
I love feet. Thank you.*
Captures the weird disquiet of our now.
A distinctive take on the tactile and on chiralities of baryonic existence. Good imaginative work!
Thank you all! What I wrote is a true and factual account. I did have muscle spasms. It felt and looked like a tiny mouse was running in circles right underneath my skin. Trying harder to keep both feet on the ground now.
This is neat. I thought of aging. I am sometimes woken up by bone pains. I hope that isn't offensive. What you have done is write something intimate and universal.
Thank you. It is universal and that is a comfort, to me.