Improbabilities

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“This, too, is probable, according to the saying of Agathon:  ‘It is part of probability that many improbable things will happen.’ ” ~ Aristotle, Poetics

He met a loving Christian once.  He met

Miss Universe:  a princess, she a Thai

In royalty.  Improbable and yet

Her grace and generosity were why

He still remembers her.  Her form and face

Were female, but that’s all that he recalls.

Her eyes and lips are blotted out.  The grace

She gave him still fills up his memory’s halls.

He met a man named Charles.  The skip within

His walk and wonder lingers yet inside

The widowed chest though beauty, death and sin

Confuse the memory like a jilted bride.

  Remembrance in a hairy torso haunts

    The marrow ribcage and the memory taunts.