Knees

A knee is a certain kind of construction,

intended to flex and support.

If you were a carpenter and built such a thing

you’d call it a knee. Prosthetists do.

I have two well-made, natural ones 

from the first half of the last century

when God was perhaps at His peak.

They are getting old

and less knee-like daily,

painfully weak and inflexible.

I force them, kneel on them,

sit on them, saying:

Be knees, knees, 

be knees.