A small piece of shriveled grace
A flap of hanging skin her face
A skein of tightly pulled gray hair
Deep wrinkles dug and piled high
Leather traveling bags under each eye
Shoulders a clothes hanger
on which hung a thread bear sweater with a hole
Revealing a worn, equally thread bear body
Her hands, more bones than flesh
painted with blue bulging lines
Rusted voice, thin worn with age
A noble spirit shuffles within a metal cage