Day 3's Small Stone for Summer's River of Stones

The Fall

Such a silly accident

Standing on a couch

Trying to hang a picture

My foot slipped between

Two cushions and suddenly

I pitched forward and crashed

Against the sofa’s front board

Smashing my leg hard enough

To break it – my leg that is

I didn’t, luckily, but oh the bruising

And the cut – and the subsequent

Pooling of blood, and swelling

From just below the knee

To the tip of my toes

I look gangrenous

It wouldn’t be so drastic

I suppose, if I weren’t preparing

To fly across the world for ten hours

In two days – doctors caution me

Me; say I have to wear

Special stockings, walk around

Up in the air ... oh my

All because I took a header ...