lifespan (EDIT 1) lifesize

[Achebe]

even before birth ...am with Todd and cvan on the 'before' bookends
we begin to grow
cells inflate a moving body
empty belly to inflated lungs crying
so many meals leads to playground speak
opinions tested as longer lung inflated air heats  ....not a big fan of the speak/heats slant rhyme. It stands out.
18 pretending so many words are adult body growing
monkey hanging from buildings over yellow night roads taunting death ..'yellow night roads' is lovely
conceived children from tooth sweat red markings at bruise green 30
from here the body starts to shrink back into itself ....this line marks the mid point of the poem's story, but it has already shrunk back from the previous one. nice touch.
chase the children raw brain tired past sun logic
into a mirror these children growing taller older ...I like taller/older, the children are older and you are older, and the two types of 'older' are so like mirror images. the mirror, the contrast - all fantastic.
my wife and I an empty house ....the half constructed sentence has particular effect in this one, where it looks like some of the words have gone away
alone again a little grayer smaller 
sex still good but older
worry evaporating night dew ...like 'yellow roads', lovely image
we hold hands
going blind
until ...ref bookends comment

kole - this was super