Climbing My Grandfather

• without a rope or net

  • risk attached to journey
  • uncertainty of if he will like him
• dusty and cracked

  • worn and used
  • live in
  • walked miles
• easy scramble

  • beggining of the jorney
• pushing

  • a challenge
• trying to grip
• earth stained hand

  • work and nature
• splintered and give good purchase

  • ugly yet
  • admiring them
• warm ice

  • oxymoron
  • struggling to describe experience
• ridge of a scar

  • past trauma
• firm shoulder

  • masculinity
  • firm despite age
  • age yet still strong
• smiling mouth

  • relief from dangers of hight
• watch a pupil slowly open and close

  • close in proximity and relations
  • windows to the soul
• knowing the slow pulse of his good heart

  • lovely ending
  • learnt and succeeded
  • now familiar
  • comfortable
  • slowing down and relaxing