Ophthalmological Fact:

Ophthalmological Fact:


A little known fact about hygiene:
did you know that in addition to washing
your body, your skin, your bits,
you need to wash your eyes as well?


You've seen the bright eyes
of lovers
and the clear eyes
of the wise
crystal
of the future seers
and the translucent
of the kind.


But what of the blister in my eye
and the blemish on my lash?


Isn't that why we blink
why shut our eyes to the storm
sand crashing brow and cheek
and scrunched and bunched
tightened too taut
to trap out trace
and silt?


Oh how it's in there deep,
the muscles now forced it back
further than I thought it might.


Gonna have to wrestle it out
with rushing water
on peeled back lid
twice stung is at once the antidote.


But a little known fact of hygiene:
did you know that in addition to washing 
your body, your skin, your bits,
you need to wash your eyes as well?


-Matthew Koutzun