Wrinkle-less

Wrinkle-less


I'm seventy and I still 
have no wrinkles, no facial map 
that says grief, hardships.

They are there, 
just hidden in 
surgery scars, deafness, neuropathy—

for me to know, 
and others to  see and hear, 
if they read my poems—


one wrinkled 
line
at a time.