My left eye is not serving me well.

Ptosis, more a nod

than a wink.

Posterior Vitreous Detachment

of a year past.

Kaleidoscopic fragments,

Floaters, specters, prismic ghosts,

visiting in daylight;

perhaps, too, in twilight—

I cannot tell.

Ophthalmologic access is within reach

across and through this murky sea; yet,

I appear and behave as a pirate

on a desultory ship.

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Bio: Andy McLean, MD, MPH, is a psychiatrist whose poetry has been published in numerous literary and medical journals.