Climbing My Grandfather

• Free/no rhyme scheme
• present tense?


  cultivates immediacy - feel as though you are there
• one stanza ?

  one continuous ladder/journey
• i decided to do it free, without a rope or net.
• the nails are splintered and give good purchase
• to his thick hair (soft and white at the altitude) reaching for the summit
• Watching clouds and birds circle...slow pulse of his good heart.
• extended metaphor of him being a mountain
• compare - walking away, eden rock