After my operation
walking up the hill
with the man I married,
I try to talk about
my brother
four years younger.

I am
clambering for
breath to explain
," He is struggling
with his cancer.

He and his wife
have
no history
of working the body.
Walking
up
hills."

He and I
deal
differently.
I can barely
get air
on this incline,
clinging
to the earth.